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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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Subject: Re: Extraneous noises
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Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 00:31:25 EST
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I don't remember ever hearing the conductor making noises, but my father has
a classic case of stray noise.  It occurs between an aria and its preceding
ricitative, on Bernstein's old _Messiah_ (the one in which he took it upon
himself to rearrange everything).

The soloist finishes, the viol and the harpsichord get their last two cents
in, and-- as if Lennie had cued it himself--

   the turn of a page cuts cleanly through the silence.

Occaisionally organ recodings pick up as much sound from the organ mechanics
as they do from the pipes.

Charley Wingate