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RE: RRE: "the sound of the hall before the first note was played"?

It might be believable if the original performance was a recording of a live performance. Once can tell a lot about the venue acoustics by listening to "room tone" especially if it is created by individual people. In some live performance recordings one can hear the conductor walk up to the podium, etc...

I'm generally interested more in the musical performance than the recording. Generally speaking, by the time the first three or four notes have been played it is pretty obvious whether the performance and recording are going to be good. (At live concerts at the BSO in the past this might not have been the case, because sometimes the brass players were drunk and if they weren't scored in the first few bars this situation would't be immediately apparent by listening. However, sometimes this condition was apparent visually.)

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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