'Off-key, off-tempo': A former Milwaukee Symphony conductor battles the foghorns

from Bubbler Talk · host WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

In 1974, former Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra conductor Kenneth Schermerhorn found the foghorns so distracting that he wrote a formal complaint to the Coast Guard about them. On this week's Bubbler Talk, we learn more about Schermerhorn and the nueroscience behind why the foghorns were so distracting to him.

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