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« on: 07:34:16, 05-11-2007 » |
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I have said for years that conductors are off in their own little world. Now there is scientific proof!  Wake Forest University and the Uni of North Carolina have used scanning techniques to compare the brain activity of 20 conductors with that of 20 normal, sane & healthy people. The results are written up by the BBC here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7074695.stm |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #1 on: 08:37:27, 05-11-2007 » |
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"A US study of 20 non-musicians and 20 musical conductors" Surely there should also have been a control group of 20 unmusical conductors? Wouldn't have been difficult to find. Indeed to be honest I don't know where they might have found 20 musical conductors...  |
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Reiner Torheit
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« Reply #2 on: 09:18:02, 05-11-2007 » |
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Perhaps they tested 20 conductors of musicals? |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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increpatio
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« Reply #3 on: 12:50:38, 05-11-2007 » |
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Interesting, if not especially groundbreaking. It's well known that there are many different parts of the brain that come into use when listening to music (linguistic, emotional &c.); I suspect that the visual system might play a larger roll if music was positioned at different points, and maybe if polyphony was increased.
Enough idle hypothesizing for me.
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« Reply #4 on: 13:21:36, 05-11-2007 » |
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"A US study of 20 non-musicians and 20 musical conductors" Surely there should also have been a control group of 20 unmusical conductors? Wouldn't have been difficult to find. Indeed to be honest I don't know where they might have found 20 musical conductors... Brilliant, ollie  A |
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Well, there you are.
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« Reply #5 on: 21:35:30, 13-11-2007 » |
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Wait, conductors have brains? This one clearly doesn't (from Private Eye): Music & Musicians
With Lunchtime O’Boulez: “Born in 1936 but still obviously game, as conductors tend to be, he sent an email. She was to pick up the key, go to the room and wait for him, with strict instructions (as the email said) ‘I WANT TO FIND YOU NAKED when I arrive’. Unfortunately he sent these instructions not only to the lady but to everyone else in his address book, including agents, artists, concert promoters throughout the world and, alas, his wife…” |
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« Reply #6 on: 21:39:27, 13-11-2007 » |
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Green. Always green.
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #7 on: 22:16:28, 13-11-2007 » |
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Once upon a time I was running an ensemble with a friend in Melbourne. We were trying to sort out details for hire music. I had exchanged several emails with the chap in charge of one particular hire library and repeatedly not got the information I needed. The other chap tried sending him an email as well. The library chap then sent an email to both of us saying 'all necessary information has already been sent to Oliver Sudden'. I then forwarded it to my friend with the marginal note 'like f*** it has!'.
Well, I thought I had forwarded it.
Why do they put the Forward button so close to the Reply button?
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #8 on: 07:49:27, 14-11-2007 » |
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With Lunchtime O’Boulez: "Born in 1936..." Hm, there seem to be plenty of conductors who fit that description... |
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George Garnett
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« Reply #9 on: 08:00:55, 14-11-2007 » |
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« Reply #10 on: 08:33:40, 14-11-2007 » |
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Aha.
There are also a ZM and a JM and another CD for that matter but I think the Gusset Hypothesis has a ring of depressing plausibility about it...
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George Garnett
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« Reply #11 on: 09:06:05, 14-11-2007 » |
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Actually, Mr S, credit where credit is due and all that. It's not so much a Gussett Hypothesis. It came up in an Intelligence Briefing the other day when one of the lads in Special Branch mentioned (not to be passed on any further of course) that a contact in MI5 had got it from their DocInt Research 3 Division at Hayes. One of the Duty Clerks there reads Private Eye and had left it lying around.
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #12 on: 16:55:11, 14-11-2007 » |
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With Lunchtime O’Boulez: “Born in 1936 but still obviously game, as conductors tend to be, he sent an email. She was to pick up the key, go to the room and wait for him, with strict instructions (as the email said) ‘I WANT TO FIND YOU NAKED when I arrive’. Unfortunately he sent these instructions not only to the lady but to everyone else in his address book, including agents, artists, concert promoters throughout the world and, alas, his wife…”
Imagine the shock when he opened his hotel room door:  |
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« Reply #14 on: 20:48:43, 14-11-2007 » |
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I did also know someone in the administration of one of the universities where I studied who sent an email to his boyfriend Alan outlining his intimate plans for their evening rendezvous in quite some detail. In his email program address book Alan was unfortunately rather too close for safety to All Staff.  |
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