{"id":64,"date":"2008-09-08T19:18:32","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T19:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=64"},"modified":"2008-09-08T19:18:32","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T19:18:32","slug":"there_will_be_noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2008\/09\/there_will_be_noise\/","title":{"rendered":"There Will Be Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"subway.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/subway.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever descended the Carnegie Hall escalators and listened to a performance of, say, Morton Feldman&#8217;s music in Zankel, you know that you need a certain amount of open-earedness. The MTA will not be stopped, and whether you can deal with (and discount) a little sound bleed from the subway running on the other side of the wall or not largely determines how much you&#8217;ll enjoy your evening.<\/p>\n<p>Well, fair music fans, the danger is about to get worse than a crowd of symphony subscribers in February. In all honesty, I initially though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/08\/opinion\/l08juilliard.html\">this writer<\/a> was going to decry the terrible inspirational effect the construction noise around Juilliard was going to have on yet another generation of composers. In the end, however, it appears that Les is really only concerned with the decibel levels audiences will be expected to politely ignore. Wherever you stand on the issue, take comfort in the fact that we&#8217;re all just riding one huge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/musical\/2008\/09\/08\/080908crmu_music_ross?currentPage=all\">pendulum of concert decorum<\/a>. But putting aside the inter-movement consumptives for a moment, ambient concert noise: welcome sign of life in the hall or performance death knell? Is this really a danger? What&#8217;s the most ridiculous concert noise you&#8217;ve had to endure?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>*Photo found on NYC subway musician Theo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/theoeastwind\">Eastwind&#8217;s MySpace<\/a> page. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever descended the Carnegie Hall escalators and listened to a performance of, say, Morton Feldman&#8217;s music in Zankel, you know that you need a certain amount of open-earedness. The MTA will not be stopped, and whether you can deal with (and discount) a little sound bleed from the subway running on the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}