Every once in a while I go see something at Carnegie Hall. I love<\/i> Carnegie Hall.<\/p>\n
Not only is it visually lovely and perfectly proportioned the way a concert hall should be, but it has legendarily good acoustics. The sound from a trained singer or instrumentalist up on that stage can travel beautifully around the entire space, reaching the ears of all listeners.<\/p>\n
Which is why I took special notice of the microphones up on stage today. They were used by people introducing the music, and that makes sense. After all, those people were just talking.<\/p>\n
But they were also used to amplify the voices of the soloists, trained vocalists with magnificent and powerful voices. And that got me scratching my head.<\/p>\n
Have we become so acclimated to a world where music is electronically amplified, that we can no longer listen to any other kind? Would modern audiences reject an unamplified operatic solo, in all of its naked glory, as somehow not sounding quite right?<\/p>\n
I have nephews who would never think of watching an old black and white movie. After all, everybody knows that movies are supposed to be in color. Which means my nephews will never see Citizen Kane<\/i>, Metropolis<\/i> or The Seven Samurai<\/i>, The Maltese Falcon<\/i> or The Treasure of Sierra Madre<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Is unamplified music arriving at the same sad place?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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