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...Hearing chamber music is the aural equivalent of a theatrical experience. Without a conductor, the players assume independent roles, taking turns delivering their “lines” as solos. Take, for example, Franz Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” string quartet, a passionate work that features the cello as a tragic heroine. Without the utterance of a single word, the instruments engage in heated arguments or profess their lyrical love for one another...
...Chamber music originally emerged as small groups of amateur musicians who played together for fun. Now, these tightly constructed pieces are among the most sought after among both performers and audiences...
Founded in 1983, the Boston Chamber Music Society has established itself as one of the best chamber music groups in Boston. The group is made up of eight freelance string and woodwind players from Boston and New York...
...lecture attendants whose white hair and 60-plus years set them even further from the crowd. Hiatt and a platoon of her peers attend classes at Harvard regularly. So far she has “seven or eight courses” under her belt, including “Chamber Music from Mozart to Revel,” which she has audited three times because “Professor [Robert D.] Levin [’68] uses different music each time...
...BOOK INCLUDES A SECTION ON ABU GHRAIB. WHAT'S THE CONNECTION? I've seen the death penalty up close, and I know it's the practice of torture. Anybody who is led to an execution chamber has shackles on their hands and feet. They've been kept in a room shorter than cells in Abu Ghraib, and for 15, 25 years...