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...19th century novel-Ross, Birch, Caleb, Gordon, Norris, Hiram, Bourke, Lister, Spessard, Roman, Gale, Thruston, Claiborne, Winston, Leverett, Strom, Harrison. This assemblage is still magisterial in form if not in substance, still flinging its sounding periods into the stillness of the Congressional Record or the empty seats of the chamber, less magnificent in its manners and less admired for its oratory, indulgent of itself and critical of others, but serving its function-as challenge, check and, if need be, support to the U.S. presidency...
Tree of Sound. The Boston Symphony has hit upon a likely solution. As in every orchestra, many of the Boston musicians have tried to balance their heavy symphonic diet with doses of chamber music, slipping off like addicts in need of a fix to play where and however they can. The progressive Boston management decided that rather than discourage the practice, as some orchestras have done, it would cultivate it. The result is the Boston Symphony Chamber Players ("The Boschaps"), organized a year ago and made up of the orchestra's first-desk players. It is the first such...
...unlike most solo virtuosos, they are well tuned in the art of ensemble playing. Indeed, each of the top dozen or so U.S. orchestras has a first-rate group there for the organizing. Following Boston's lead, the Chicago Symphony this season inaugurated a similar series of nine chamber-music concerts; five have been held so far, and all have been sellouts. If the trend develops, the music public can hardly lose; neither can the orchestras. As Boston Symphony President Henry Cabot observes: "Our job is to make music around this neck of the woods, and the more music...
...nearby Nice airport discouraged prospective tenants. The Blue Bird's builder sued Air France, the major noisemaker. At takeoff, the government-controlled airline did not think it was in for much turbulence. Air France simply argued that the proper party to sue was the Nice chamber of commerce, which runs the airport. "We just land where we are told," said the airline. What's more, the builder had taken a deliberate risk: nestled the Blue Bird only 80 yards from the airport runway. And, finally, Air France invoked a 1952 international aviation treaty that declares: "There...
...Antonio was delighted-and prepared. When the 41-man press corps hit town after a five-hour flight, it was greeted by a rollicking four-piece Mexican band and an unlimited supply of margarita cocktails. "We'd like you to be happy this weekend and every weekend," boomed Chamber of Commerce President B. J. ("Red") McCombs. "We will do as many things for you as you will allow...