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...unlike the Bruins, it doesn't offer its fans the option of watching performances on color TV in the privacy of their homes. One way the orchestra makes its music available to the people who can't get into Symphony Hall is the Sanders Theatre Series of the BSO Chamber Players, which starts this Sunday afternoon at 4. The orchestra accepts a financial loss to present the series of three concerts at Harvard every year, in the hope that a large proportion of the audience will come from the student community. The Chamber Players, who are the BSO's first...
...clubby group of musical jet-setters known affectionately and with some envy as the "musical mafia." It consists of Ashkenazy, Violinists Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman, plus Mehta, who is reliably reported to play a mean double bass. The group meets four or five times a year to play chamber music. "We are more than friends," says Mehta. "If there could be something like a family outside a family, that's what we have...
...performing for an audience. The three winners in the boys' division that year were dressed as an Indian, a cowboy, and the last wore a minutely detailed copy of a Special Forces uniform. A sweating man in tuxedo lined the three up in front of a battery of Chamber of Commerce and news photographers, whereupon the contestants blinked mutely like pole-axed calves as the flashbulbs burst and the shutters began snapping like a den of rattlers...
...Adlai Stevenson, the household problems were simpler. The Republican he defeated for a Senate seat from Illinois, Ralph Tyler Smith, was in the chamber when Stevenson was sworn in last week ahead of everybody else. The two men established an amicable demilitarized zone as Stevenson took over three of the six rooms in Smith's suite in the old Senate Office Building. On Stevenson's side, people flowed in in a kind of happy chaos while a small boy cheerfully answered the phone; across the DMZ, a Smith aide said that things were pretty dull...
...most prestigious Republican entertaining is to be found in the Georgetown garden or leaf-printed dining room of Senator and Mrs. John Sherman Cooper. In her Paris wardrobe and splendid emeralds, Heiress Lorraine Cooper displays an intuitive flair for the metapolitics of power?as practiced in the Senate chamber, or around the dinner table...