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Part A Directions:
Read the following four texts. Answer thequestions below each text by choosing [A], [B], [C] or [D]. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(40 points)
Text 1
The decision of the New York Philharmonicto hire Alan Gilbert as its next music director has been the talk of theclassical-music world ever since the sudden announcement of his appointment in2009. For the most part, the response has been favorable, to say the least.“Hooray! At last!” wrote Anthony Tommasini, a sober-sided classical-musiccritic.
One of the reasons why the appointment cameas such a surprise, however, is that Gilbert is comparatively little known.Even Tommasini, who had advocated Gilbert’s appointment in the Times, calls him“an unpretentious musician with no air of the formidable conductor about him.”As a description of the next music director of an orchestra that has hithertobeen led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and Pierre Boulez, that seems likelyto have struck at least some Times readers as faint praise.
For my part, I have no idea whether Gilbertis a great conductor or even a good one. To be sure, he performs an impressivevariety of interesting compositions, but it is not necessary for me to visitAvery Fisher Hall, or anywhere else, to hear interesting orchestral music. AllI have to do is to go to my CD shelf, or boot up my computer and download stillmore recorded music from iTunes.
Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordingsare no substitute for live performance are missing the point. For the time,attention, and money of the art-loving public, classical instrumentalists mustcompete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, andmuseums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classicalmusicians of the 20th century. There recordings are cheap, availableeverywhere, and very often much higher in artistic quality than today’s liveperformances; moreover, they can be “consumed” at a time and place of thelistener’s choosing. The widespread availability of such recordings has thusbrought about a crisis in the institution of the traditional classical concert.
One possible response is for classicalperformers to program attractive new music that is not yet available on record.Gilbert’s own interest in new music has been widely noted: Alex Ross, aclassical-music critic, has described him as a man who is capable of turningthe Philharmonic into “a markedly different, more vibrant organization.” Butwhat will be the nature of that difference? Merely expanding the orchestra’srepertoire will not be enough. If Gilbert and the Philharmonic are to succeed,they must first change the relationship between America’s oldest orchestra andthe new audience it hops to attract.We learn from Para.1 that Gilbert’sappointment has A．incurred criticis
B．raised suspicio
C．received acclai
D．aroused curiosit
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