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Joseph Silverstein is the BSO's concertmaster, and first violin of the Chamber Players. An affable middle-aged man with very long sideburns, he could pass for the principal of an affluent and progressive suburban high school. It is easy to understand why the BSO's press officers like to have him act as a spokesman for the orchestra: he has a pleasant, reassuring manner and a way of keeping in control of interviews. Sitting in a comfortable armchair in a Symphony Hall anteroom, he seems to actually enjoy being asked the same old questions once more. (As we talk...
...prices weren't enough to attract an audience, the performers and the program would be. The Chamber Players include some fine instrumentalists, among them flautist Doriot Anthony Dwyer, clarinetist Harold Wright, trumpeter Armando Ghitalla, and horn player James Stagliano. The programs, decided on co-operatively by the entire group, are diverse: this Sunday, the group will do a Rossini Quartet for Strings, Piston's Woodwind Quintet, and the Schubert Octet...
...Chamber Players give their concerts on the side, in addition to their orchestra duties. In order to get the experience of performing chamber works on a regular basis, they give up hugh chunks of their time. "For the Schubert Octet, we will probably have had twenty-five hours of rehearsal," Silverstein says. A similar amount of time spent on every work on the program would amount to almost eighty hours of preparation for a single concert, over and above regular BSO rehearsals...
...Chamber Players are not complete sacrifices, of course. Playing in a chamber group is a beneficial, almost vital, experience for any first-rate instrumentalist. But the Sanders Theatre Series is a great benefit to the Harvard community, one that deserves fond thanks...
...opponent, State Senator William D. Weeks, whose principle achievement in a six-year legislative career was sponsoring a bill making cranberry juice the official state drink, and who stated as one of the three reasons he ran for Congress the need for an electronic vote counter in the House chamber...