TPO 47 听力文本 Conversation 1 Listen to a conversation between a student and a music director Stu Ms Harper Dir Yes can I help you Stu Hi my name is Eric Paterson I m a journalism student Er I want to ask you about the orchestra Dir I m sorry Eric But the orchestra is only open to music majors Stu Really Well see Dir But the policy s changing next year After that if you ve taken three music courses you will be able to audition Stu Well e I have taken some music courses and I do play the double bass so maybe that s something to think about But actually I was here about something else Dir Oh sorry it s just I I get that question all the time so Stu That s Ok The thing is I work for Magna the school paper and I m reporting on last week s concert Now I went to it and I really enjoyed it But now I m looking for some background knowledge Dir Well I can refer you to some of the students in the orchestra if you d like a young musician s point of view Stu Er I guess that might be helpful but I m really looking for a little bit of scholarly perspective some history of the music that was performed that evening where it was originated how it s developed over time Dir Well some of our musician s kind of specialize in Appalachian music In fact that s part of the reason we performed it So you really should talk to them too Er OK so we were playing Appalachian music from communities in the Appalachian mountain regions of the United States Stu All right Dir Er Do you really think you can keep these all in your head Stu Oh don t worry All I need are a few key facts I m sure I can keep them straight until I get back to my dorm Dir So the music is generally based on folk ballets and instrumental dance tunes Er It starts with Scottish and Irish immigrants who brought over their styles of music It s called Anglo Celtic Stu So people brought their musical traditions with them Dir Well this Anglo Celtic music was considered an important link to the past for these people which you can see in the way that Appalachian singers sing ballets They have a sort of nasal quality to them like in Celtic ballets In their new land some of the lyrics were updated You know to refer to the new locations and the occupations the settlers had in America but at the same time lots of ballets were still about the castles and royalty lords and ladies stuff like that which is what they were about originally Stu Ok and was that some sort of banjo I saw on stage during the performance Dir Yes we are lucky that one of our students Steward Telford has a 19 century banjo a real antique He is able to play it in most of the traditional styles Did you know that banjos are of African American origin and that settlers in Appalachian adopted banjos for their folk music They became very common in traditional Appalachian music along with guitars and violins of course But if you want to learn about that banjo talk to Steward Stu That s great Ms Harper Thanks a lot Now can you recommend any sources where I could look up more about this Dir Sure I have a great book A student has it today but you can borrow it tomorrow if you d like Conversation 2 Listen to a conversation between a student and his professor Pro This is not what I had in mind when I assigned a film review Stu It isn t Pro No What you wrote is a synopsis detailed summary of the movie but it s not a review Stu It s not I guess I m a little confused cause isn t what a film review does you know to describe the film Pro Sure in part But a good review has to do more But this is probably not your fault I m starting to think that I should ve explained the assignment better because well I got a lot of summaries and very few reviews Stu So it wasn t only me Pro Hardly I just assumed that everyone would know what to do Stu So er what else is a review supposed to do Pro Well it should also analyze the film discuss its strengths and weaknesses maybe compare to other movies even mention why the reviewer did or didn t like it Stu You mean it should have been more personal Pro For starters or maybe subjective is a better word than personal Yes it should have been more subjective Stu Maybe I could rewrite it Pro Well I don t know about rewriting it Too many people seem to have missed the point I think I may have to forgo evaluating this one Instead maybe we ll just devote a class to discussing what it takes to write a good film review or maybe hum you know I have a colleague who writes film reviews for the local paper Maybe I could ask her to come to class and describe what she does and then have everyone rewrite their reviews Stu So she will talk about what a film review should be like so we d know what to do Pro Well more than that A professional film reviewer gets to see movie sometimes before they re even released They get advanced copies usually a video or DVD to watch at home or they go a movie as soon as it opens in the theatres Stu Em seeing it on a big screen in a theatre Doesn t that affect the experience Pro Of cou