At 02:22 PM 7/10/2008, [email protected] wrote:
Now back to music in caves. The best I've ever heard was the time I went to Fantastic pit in Ellisonâs cave, 586 feet of fabulous acoustics! I was with group of people from TAG that I didn't know. Imagine my surprise when several revealed themselves to be Broadway song and dance geeks by singing hits that reverberated up and down the pit! If I ever go back I plan to take a boom box and play Wagnerâs Ride of the Valkyries! But come to think of it, wouldn't it be more appropriate to play that while plummeting into the abyss of Valhalla?
Way back in the '70s I had the honor of aiding and abetting a ceremony/concert in Snedegar Cave in West Virginia (now part of the Friars Hole Cave Preserve). The main cave is a huge chamber about 10 meters high and 20 or 30 meters wide and 300 or so meters long. Most of the sediments had been dug out for saltpeter during the Civil War so the floor was mostly flat. Everyone was instructed to bring chairs or blankets.
We had several large speakers located both in front of and behind the audience--which may have totalled a few more than 100. The musical bill-of-fare was Jethro Tull's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and another long and beautiful album of synthesized cave sounds and cavey music (the name of both the French artist and music I've forgotten) that went on for the better part of an hour--much of it in total darkness. It was a WOWer.
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