Dear Caio,
If you enjoy Dave Barry columns, check into the one about his first opera
experience as the corpse in Gianni Schicchi. It is hysterically funny!
Phyllis
Caio Rossi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got this from another discussion group ( on Sheldrake's morphogenetic
> fields ). enjoy it.
>
> Caio
>
> > I found something very interesting. The source is a bit goofy, but it
> > can be followed up with the study of a more serious journal. Anyway,
> > here it is:
> >
> > Dave Barry is a syndicated columnist. I have no use for his somewhat
> > conservative politics, but he's a humorist, and his stock & trade is to
> > look at human foibles. I think the guy is pretty funny. But he doesn't
> > make stuff up. So I'm inclined to take him at his word when he quotes a
> > college professor named Cherrill P. Heaton who wrote an article for a
> > journal called "Popular Music and Society". Heaton's article, according
> > to Barry, is called "Air Ball: Spontaneous Large Group Precision
> > Chanting". I will quote Barry's description of Heaton's article, which
> > will explain Heaton's discovery and demonstrate a bit of Barry's Humor:
> >
> > "The article concerns a phenomenon that often occurs at basketball
> > games when a visiting player shoots an 'air ball'--a shot that misses
> > everything. Immediately, the crowd, in a sportsmanlike effort to cause
> > the this player to commit suicide, will start chanting
> > 'AIR-ball...AIR-ball.'
> > Professor Heaton...noticed an odd thing about the 'AIR BALL' chant:
> > The crowd members always seemed to start at precisely the same time, and
> > in perfect tune with each other...
> > But there's more. Using his VCR, Professor Heaton taped a bunch of
> > basketball games; he discovered that, no matter where the games were
> > played, almost all the crowds chanted 'AIR-BALL' _in the same
> > key_--namely F, with the 'Air' being sung on an F note, and the 'Ball'
> > being sung on a D note." [Emphasis in Original]
> >
> > Barry goes on to explain his own informal experiments with this. (He is
> > an amateur musician.) Generally, he found that people who could carry a
> > tune did indeed, when asked, sing the chant in the Key of F. This story
> > is, I think, worth checking out. If the Heaton article is for real (as
> > I expect it is), we will have a very intriguing morphic effect.
> >
> > Gordon
>
>
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