Dear Ed;
Did hearing H. Smith's Kaspsberger cause you to loiter in the area.
Maybe the City should rethink this. I'm not sure they really want gangs of
unruly lutenists hanging out downtown, panhandling for money to buy strings,
harassing passersby with their "thumb in, thumb out" rap. Word up.
Gary
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From: "Edward Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stuart LeBlanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "lute" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 4:35 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Music Therapy
> I reside in a small City of just under 100,000 people in population. In
> the downtown area, there has become a notorious area for teenage
> loitering. The city tried to disperse them, using many means, such as
> using the police to patrol & mingle. This did not work. So, what _was_
> effective was to have recorded Classical music, such as Mozart. The
> loitering stopped; none of them wanted to hear beautiful music. Once day
> as I walked by, I actually heard broadcasting in that area Hopkinson
> Smith's Kapsberger recording!
>
> ed
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> At 04:36 PM 1/6/2006 -0600, Stuart LeBlanc wrote:
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> >Actually there a contraposition "Mozart effect," involving the dispersal
of
> >loitering teenagers, criminals, etc:
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> Edward Martin
> 2817 East 2nd Street
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