Face to Face
ACE to face with a microphone, what does an artist think? Does he, as a drowning man is popularly supposed to do, recall his past, or at least his musical past, those mistakes which quite easily may soon occur again? Or does he look at the microphone and return it sneer for sneer? There are occasions-too fre-quent-when the studio broadcast is
much less enjoyable than. a previous performance of the same music by the same people. on the concert platform. ‘Qne can only surmise that something happens to ‘the artist when he enters the studio. Is he intimidated by the grim impassiveness. of the microphone, the unresponsive acoustics of the studio; or does his imagination boggle at the unknown quantity of the unseen audience? Whatever it is, there is no doubt that something is lost between the studio and the loudspeaker. Coarseness of tone, ‘heaviness, Jack of balance may all come from the turning of the wrong knob by the technician, but faulty intonation is personal. And yet while all these may have been absent from the concert performance they often occur in a repeat broadcast. Perhaps someone is needed to introduce artist and microphone, to help the artist to feel at home and break down the impersonal atmosphere of the proceedings.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 325, 14 September 1945, Page 10
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215Face to Face New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 325, 14 September 1945, Page 10
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