As she did often in the interview, she spoke slowly, tapping her hand on the table for emphasis, and offered perorations, as if speaking to a hall full of listeners.
"Is anybody here from the RNC committee?" a Michigan attorney, Julie H. Hurwitz, called out to a room full of listeners in the law school's mock-trial room, where she was discussing how to defend activists in mass arrest cases.
And on Tuesday night Mr. Philippakis seemed to enjoy the chance to play for a receptive audience full of curious listeners who had — as yet — no strong feelings about his band.
This expansive compendium of contrapuntal techniques is more of a theoretical treatise than an entertainment, and if Bach envisioned an audience, it would not have been a hall full of passive listeners, but musicians, amateur or professional, who might marvel at the music's construction as it was played.
Yet as gratified as he seemed by a capacity crowd full of young listeners – a rarity today for jazz artists of any age -- Glasper was still channeling some of the oppositional energy for which he's known.
The Sound Culture Center for Global Arts described Megitza as "a true concert revelation – an unusual voice, charisma and beauty", describing her music as "dynamic, vibrant, full of energy, uniting listeners of all ages".
It's a brave move to bring in the unstable element of live performance, and Life on Planets did so while keeping a crowd full of first time listeners grooving for hours.
An "aggressive performance" of Vivaldi's music was matched by "an equally aggressive audience – a house full of shouting, clapping, stamping listeners", he writes, adding that "any rock video will provide a living example" of the kind of thing we are talking about.
He further commented that Matsu's voice, "full of strength", helps the listeners realize how much she has grown over the years.
The next afternoon I had the honor of addressing a packed room full of intelligent and inquisitive listeners at the Library of Congress.
The mix is a basket full of songs perfect for listeners to zone out and groove to, or as Leduc puts it: "People are gonna have sex to this".
