Re: [ARSCLIST] How not to mike an orchestra

["Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, David,

I gave up on the Met Opera broadcast a few weeks ago. It sounded as 
if all the singers had radio mics for the broadcast.

It's sad.

Happy New Year anyway!

Richard

At 08:43 PM 2007-12-31, you wrote:
> I've just given up on the NY Philharmonic live broadcast (not 
> difficult, since I can't stand Lorin Maazel anyway)..what the hell 
> are they doing, using 50 mikes? Joshua Bell's sniffing was almost as 
> loud as his fiddle playing, and the two bassoonists in the 
> Sorceror's Apprentice could be heard clicking away. Ghastly. If you 
> want a laugh, tune in..this circus goes until ten pm, with an 
> announcer who can't stop talking even when he has nothing to say 
> (and says it 4 times..Martin Bookspan, where are you!).
>
> Horrible. And somebody get Bell an antihistamine.

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