Blink

says de Becker, imagining what flashed through their minds. “He’s out there alone. At twelve-thirty in the m ...

Diallo’s apartment building is flush with the sidewalk, separated by just a four-step stoop. There is ...

“He’s got a gun!” And he starts firing. McMellon falls backward and starts firing — and a man falling backwar ...

Avenue, because he has lost track in the shouting and the shooting of where he is. Carroll sits down on ...

Conclusion Listening with Your Eyes: The Lessons of Blink At the beginning of her career as a professional ...

belongings to go home. But the committee thought otherwise. They were floored. Auditions are classic thin-slic ...

described in his memoir as a “grotesque situation”: “An applicant qualified himself as the best, and as the scre ...

meeting. She was to be demoted to second trombone, she was told. No reason was given. Conant went on probatio ...

But then another round of battles began — that would last another five years — because the orchestra ref ...

men always seemed to sound better than the women. No one paid much attention to how auditions were held ...

an official audition committee was established instead of a conductor making the decision all by himself. In ...

remember that after it was announced that the four women had won, one guy was absolutely furious at me. ...

some use nickel-silver, and the kind of horn the person is playing tells you something about what city t ...

There is a powerful lesson in classical music’s revolution. Why, for so many years, were conductors so obl ...

rooms or policing the streets from making mistakes. “If I was coming to see a work of art, I used to ...

and better musicians mean better music. And how did we get better music? Not by rethinking the entire classical ...

before as a substitute. Until they listened to her with just their ears, however, they had no idea ...

Notes INTRODUCTION. THE STATUE THAT DIDN’T LOOK RIGHT Margolis published his findings in a triumphant arti ...

Ancient World (Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1990), 275–278; and Robert Steven Bianchi, “Saga of the Getty ...

On Ambady’s research on professors, see Nahni Ambady and Robert Rosenthal, “Half a Minute: Predicting Teacher ...