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...Baseball is like Russian Roulette," Smerczynski said after the game. "Some days you have a gun and no bullets, and other days you have seven bullets in a six-chamber...
...play, however, is effectively set on an angular multi-level stage containing a richly furnished chamber, a railing, a podium, and stairs leading to different levels. The various levels constructed on the stage interestingly reflect the various levels of action in the plot. After a march for civil rights, the three Irishmen seek shelter from tear gas in the chambers of a high religious person. The conversation and action during their afternoon together is also pieced through the drama. The scenes show their innocence. They come across not as revolutionaries, but as simple people with simple needs...
Leonard Slatkin. 37, of the St. Louis Symphony. The leader of this first-class orchestra comes by his music loving naturally. Growing up in Los Angeles, Slatkin heard his violinist father and cellist mother play chamber music regularly as half of the Hollywood String Quartet. Slatkin on the podium maintains tight control over his orchestra; his performances are marked by precision and a command of musical architecture that permits him to bring off unwieldly pieces like Rachmaninoffs uncut Second Symphony...
With limited opportunities at home, some promising Americans have packed their scores and set off for Europe. Dennis Russell Davies, 38, won praise as the leader of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra but left in 1980 to direct the Stuttgart Opera in Germany. James Conlon, 32, recently was named music director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic-succeeding Zinman, who spent much of his early career in The Netherlands. Michael Tilson Thomas, 37, after an eight-year stint as the Buffalo Philharmonic's music director, now spends his time guest conducting both here and abroad. Perhaps the most successful...
...proposal, sponsored by Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, would require Congress to draw up a balanced budget every year unless three-fifths of the members of each chamber voted for deficit financing. Before becoming part of the Constitution, it must be approved by a two-thirds majority in both houses, then ratified by at least 38 states in seven years. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the amendment last May by a vote of 11 to 5 (with nine Republicans and two Democrats voting for it). Hatch hopes a floor debate will begin late next month, but he concedes that...