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...Negotiations are like a compression chamber," Thomson says. "Once you get in it, the pressure comes from all sides to reduce your grandiose objectives. And it also becomes very hard to break off talks once you have started them. I think all of us should press very hard for talks...
...though piccolo means small, the Piccolo Teatro Musicale stands for something very big in music today-a burgeoning interest in the baroque and post-baroque. Its leader, Renato Fasano, has played a pioneering role in bringing back Vivaldi and Corelli with his celebrated chamber ensemble Virtuosi di Roma. Now he is doing the same thing for the chamber operas of such composers as Paisiello, Cimarosa and Rossini...
...chamber music...
...Ashfield reasons that victims of severe heart attacks not only feel and appear breathless-they are actually oxygen-starved because neither heart nor lungs are working efficiently. For his tests he has chosen only patients who have had severe, potentially fatal heart attacks. He puts them in the chamber for a minimum of four days (one man stayed in for ten days). The patient breathes pure oxygen under pressure for two hours; then the lid is opened, and he breathes ordinary air for one hour. This cycle is repeated around the clock. Of Ashfield's first 40 patients, only...
...bars of an up-tempo number, Cole scanned a bewildering battery of gauges and began twiddling and tweaking some of the console's 250 multicolored knobs and switches that are linked to a forest of microphones in the studio. One knob channeled Williams' voice through an echo chamber; others-muffled or brightened various sections of the orchestra. The drums alone were surrounded by four microphones through which Cole, by deftly manipulating tone and volume controls, accented certain phrases or kept the brass from overpowering the beat...