ATTENTION may be directed to a coincidence between a fade-out reported by the B.B.C. as having taken place between 16h 50m and 17h 00m U.T. on April 8, 1936, and a large sunspot, just visible to ...

The once-ubiquitous but tragically underappreciated fade-out in music appears to be near its end. And like a classic example of itself, the decline has been long, gradual, and barely noticed. The ...