Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barlow's unlikely visit to the United States. He was at the airport in London when suddenly he became the ten millionth person to see someone off and won a free trip to Calcutta or Los Angeles. Poor guy chose you-know-what and plunged himself into an incredible chamber of horrors. Shortly after Barlow's arrival his British uncle, a failure in the movie industry, commits suicide, leaving the hapless boy to make all the funeral arrangements--and what funeral arrangements...
Returning home, the scholarly-looking Lewis founded the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in 1958, led it on a 14-country junket through Europe. After serving for three years as associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where his quietly authoritative approach was a perfect complement to the flamboyant attack of fiery Zubin Mehta, the orchestra's resident conductor, Lewis this year was appointed music director of the Los Angeles Opera Company. Now 33, he lives with his wife, Mezzo Soprano Marilyn Home, in a fashionable home in North Hollywood complete with swimming pool. Says Wife Marilyn, who is white...
...What this country needs," Conductor Fritz Reiner once observed, "is more lousy string quartets." It is not for lack of trying. Indeed, the compulsion of amateur musicians to get together for an evening of chamber music is all but irrepressible. An Army officer's wife one day was approached by a stranger who noticed a telltale mark on her neck: "You must play the violin. Would you like to join our group?" A Boston doctor, hearing a man whistling a Mozart theme on the street, whistled back and soon had a date for duets. One desperate violinist pinned notes...
Today, fortunately, there is a more organized way for these weekend musicians to seek one another out-the Amateur Chamber Music Players. It was conceived in 1947 by the late Leonard Strauss, an Indianapolis incinerator manufacturer who grew bored playing his violin in his hotel room while on business trips. Today the A.C.M.P. publishes a directory that lists 6,000 amateur musicians in 50 states and 61 countries. By consulting the directory, a member can arrange a living-room concert in virtually any city in the world...
...article ridiculing local wines. When a project to renovate Los Angeles' downtown plaza stalled for three years, the magazine Los Angeles got it going again with an all-out assault on city and state agencies that were holding it up. Even Atlanta, which remains a Chamber of Commerce publication, has run pieces debunking the Ku Klux Klan and questioning the city's cultural pretensions...