For Ibragimova, "it's a never-ending journey with Bach," as a listener as well as a player: "When I listen to someone else playing the solo works, it's a real meditation".
She was a great listener, as well as a great storyteller.
He was a gabber of the highest order — and an avid listener, as well.
What sounds limited and repetitive to the outsider is, to the knowing listener, as nuanced as a Henry James passage.
It is the face of a good listener, as well as of someone who exercised a natural restraint".
"It was reminiscent of the old saying that gossip is a three-pronged tongue: it can hurt the speaker and the listener, as well as the target".
There were, inevitably, nuances of difference between the two concerts – though these can of course reflect differences within the listener as well as the performer.
The new sound art is about experience for its own sake, about taking marvellous imaginary journeys with the ears, about empowering the listener as much as the practitioner.
He laughs easily, and though a prodigious talker — we see him lecturing and also holding forth in the laboratory and at a family Seder — he seems like a good listener as well.
(Stephen Sondheim, assessing Porter's work in his book "Finishing the Hat," notes, "Porter's wit is generous to the listener as well as to his targets.... Porter believes what he says, even at his most overheated").
No matter how complicated a concept may be, deep understanding is possible for the listener as long as they have all the information they need for something to click.
