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...need not be, says Pianist Charles Rosen, a sometime author who won a National Book Award earlier this year for The Classical Style. In the current issue of the literary journal Prose, Rosen argues that for concert performers, at least, stage fright is an outgrowth of the questionable principle that recitalists must perform from memory. Playing by heart may make the performance seem a spontaneous creation of the virtuoso himself. But since the audience already has in mind an idealized notion of the music, an inevitable gap opens between concept and realization. Public humiliation awaits the performer who lets...
...silence of the audience," writes Rosen, "is not that of a public that listens but of one that watches-like the dead hush that accompanies the unsteady movement of a tightrope walker poised over his perilous space. At every performance of a Beethoven sonata, the audience is aware of a text behind the sound, a text which is approached, deformed, illuminated. The significance of the music as performed starts from this tension. The physical sign of this tension is stage fright." Like epilepsy, he says, "stage fright is a divine ailment, a sacred madness...
...families without a father, but we were surprised to find that overall density of population in a project is not a critical factor. On the other hand, the design-where you put people-is crucial. Height itself is one major element. We discovered that high-rise projects, like the Rosen houses in Philadelphia and Van Dyke in New York, suffered much worse crime rates than those in some adjacent projects, which had similar densities and social types but were built low and broken up into smaller units. The reason is that as buildings get bigger and higher, they become more...
...BRUCE ROSEN...
Trips to Europe. Rosen is in the minority; most kibbutz members are yielding to the temptations of materialism. On Kibbutz Givat Haim (Hill of Life), every adult couple has a 21-room apartment or cottage, two radios, a refrigerator and a hot-water supply, and gets a trip to Europe every five years. Other kibbutzim are beginning to permit TV sets, not just in the dining hall for group viewing but in members' private quarters. Says David Tal: "Attendance at our Saturday night meeting is way down now because Ironside comes on at 9 o'clock, when...