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...seat Chamber of Deputies, the Christian Democrats have 262, the Communists 201, the Socialists 62; remaining seats are split among nine smaller parties...
...Beaux Arts has earned the right to look back in laughter, and in triumph too. Now in its 25th year, it is one of the most durable and distinguished of chamber groups. Among the world's piano trios, there is none better. All three members perform well enough to be soloists. But even the greatest virtuosos who join together as a trio can remain just that: a trio. The Beaux Arts players' real virtuosity lies in their ability to become, as Greenhouse puts it, "one instrument...
...turned to Cohen, who is now 57. The son of a Brooklyn scrap-metal dealer, Cohen may have had music instilled in him by a grandmother who took him to the Yiddish theater and hummed through all the performances. He studied with Ivan Galamian at Juilliard and refined his chamber music skills during ten years as second violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet...
FICTION: Life Before Man, Margaret Atwood ∙ Morgan's Passing, Anne Tyler ∙ Shikasta, Doris Lessing Smiley's People, John le Carre ∙ The Beginning Place, Ursula K. Le Guin The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter Yellowfish, John Keeble...
...role of the marathon man of the chamber field can become confining, and too much Baroque music, as Marriner says, "is like being in a sewing machine factory." A few years ago, he began taking more and more engagements with symphonic ensembles. Conducting orchestras such as the Concertgebouw, the Boston Symphony and the French National Orchestra, he decided that what he had learned with chamber orchestras "translated very well into the symphonic world." A good thing too because now, at 55, Marriner is deep into the first season of his most challenging symphonic assignment yet, as music director...