The Hum of Expectation
HE advance of science, in itself a quest for truth, unfortunately makes it easier in some ways to practise deception. It is no longer accepted that the camera cannot lie and we can never be sure that even the documentary film or photograph is a record of the actual event. It is even more difficult to verify the authenticity of a radio broadcast. An innocent and regularly used deception is the addition of preliminary noise and applause to a recorded or studio performance to reproduce the atmosphere of the concert-hall. It is a device, however, that rarely deceives. When the announcer at the recent Wellington symphony concert described the "hum of expectation" there was no doubt of its reality. It is almost impossible to synthesise the formal informality of the orchestral noises, the last moments of tuning and warming up, or the symphony of shufflings as the audience settles itself to listen. More difficult still is it to imitate that indefinable feeling of arfticipation. The listening mind flies the intervening miles and joins the waiting audience.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 332, 2 November 1945, Page 9
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180The Hum of Expectation New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 332, 2 November 1945, Page 9
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