Fickes, 2015
In the Monty Python movie “Life of Brian,” a scene shows a crowd listening as Jesus delivers the Sermon on the Mount. The camera moves back over the crowd to the back where no one can hear anything of the Beatitudes. They call out to the people just in front of them asking what is being said. They can barely hear, and they are not getting it quite right. Suddenly someone turns around and reports that Jesus just said: “Blessed are the cheesemakers.”
“So this magnificent lesson, one of the great lessons of history was lost to the people in the back rows because they couldn’t hear it,” says David Lubman, an acoustics consultant based in Westminster, Calif., who enjoys telling that story when discussing the importance of good acoustics to learning in schools.
