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...slightly sadistic. "Hold your paunch, celebrate it," he instructed Maxwell at one point during rehearsals. "For Falstaff, it is not grossness, it is greatness, virility." Bearing out Epstein's point, the modest dimensions of the BAM theater enabled Stein to stage Verdi's last masterpiece as a kind of chamber work, with the stage action fast-moving and intricately choreographed. The closeness of the proceedings also gives added prominence to Richard Armstrong's intense and hard-driving conducting of what is perhaps Verdi's most complex orchestral score...
...cherubic figure of William Christie, 44, a transplanted American with a passion for neglected composers like Lully. With degrees from $ both Harvard and Yale, Christie went to France nearly two decades ago to be a harpsichordist (he had been a student of Ralph Kirkpatrick), then founded a flourishing chamber ensemble called Les Arts Florissants, then became the first American professor at the Paris Conservatoire...
Sullivan, now president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, points to the East Cambridge Riverfront Plan and revamped areas of Kendall and Lechmere Squares as examples of the type of development he promoted...
...chamber applauded loudly when Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-Ill.) told colleagues in a rousing speech before the vote, "Each member of this House, Democrat and Republican, is worth a salary of $135,000 a year...
...Chamber's only problem was shooting foul shots. He missed two front ends of one-and-ones in the final minute of the game...