Last week, the Mimai Herald reported about a concert by the Bergen Philharmonic led by Andrew Litton that had serious acoustical problems. Litton responds: “I have never encountered an Artec hall that was a problem until I got to Miami last Monday. From the first downbeat it was clear something was very wrong…”
Tag: 11.18.07
Nutcracker On Ice (It’s Actually Great)
The St. Petersburg State Ballet on Ice has always been theatrical, even when the special effects were limited to whatever a rink could support.
Onward And Upward With… Sleep!
For years, doctors have been discouraged by Americans’ disregard for and mismanagement of their sleep. (“I might as well have been running a chain of beauty parlors for the last four decades” is how one described his advocacy.) But bragging about how little you sleep, a hallmark of the ’80s power broker, is starting in certain circles to come off as masochistic buffoonery.
The (Un)Conscious Mind
“The part of our world that is most recalcitrant to our understanding at the moment is consciousness itself. How could the electrochemical processes in the lump of gray matter that is our brain give rise to the dazzling technicolor play of consciousness, with its transports of joy, its stabs of anguish and its stretches of mild contentment alternating with boredom?”