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...promising new chamber orchestra called the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields was gathered in London to make its first recording. The players decided that they needed something they had done without in their initial concerts: a conductor. Their concertmaster, Neville Marriner, hesitantly took the baton. "We went along for a few bars; then everything broke down," Marriner recalls. "We tried a few more bars and everything broke down again. Finally our oboist said, 'Well, Nev, if you're going to conduct, either stand somewhere where we can see you or somewhere where...
...bars, he has built an international reputation for graceful, lively, intelligently shaped performances, especially of the Baroque composers and Mozart and Haydn. Though he continues to record with the Academy, he has long since ceased to appear regularly with it, having moved on to lead the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for ten years and guest-conduct similar groups all over the world...
...into the wrong arena at the right time. The police guarding the door to the right rink turn spectators away sternly, repeating, "I'm sorry, there's nothing we can do about it." They are authoritarian clones, faceless and infuriating among all the hope and faith. "Go to the Chamber of Commerce," is another one of their favorite lines...
...expand their forces to the 23-member Waverly Waits in order to present large-scale compositions. It is a practice Jaffee would like to step up. He believes that the custom of performing early music in small groups is like representing the repertory of the 19th century solely through chamber music. "They had their equivalents of the Medici Philharmonic too," he says...
...ominous black, knows better: Clytemnestra has taken a lover, Aegis thus (Peter Woodward), who now rules the land as a tyrant. He is intimately linked to the origin of the curse on the House of Atreus. All too soon the cries of horror sound as if from some echo chamber in hell. The fates are inexorable: the bodies of Agamemnon and Cassandra are eventually hurled onto the stage like the carcasses of animals, and Clytemnestra emerges spattered with blood. As she drapes Cassandra's arm over Agamemnon's shoulder, one wonders whether she murdered him for sacrificing their...