Klarinet Archive - Posting 000127.txt from 2007/07

From: "Lora Crighton" <lcrighton@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] loud bands
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:04:40 -0400

On 7/15/07, kurtheisig@-----.net> wrote:
> Remember----throughout the entire Big Band Era, bands were not miced. Does that mean that ALL players today are grotesquely incompetent to be heard past the footlights?
>
>

More likely it means that audiences have worse hearing, especially the
young people. I have been commuting on public transit for years, and
I used to enjoy some quiet time to read, or listen to my own music,
but I can't do that any more, because other people have their music so
loud. Sometimes I can hear 5 or 6 different pieces at once, and I
don't understand how they can stand it (unless they have already
destroyed their hearing), because if I put my iPod or CD player on
that loud, I would be in too much pain to listen to the music. I
still remember the first time I heard a rock band live - it was at
some kind of neighbourhood celebration in a local park, and once the
band started, my friend and I took our food and sat down on the steps
of a church a couple of blocks away because it was too loud at the
park.

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