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...What this country needs," Conductor Fritz Reiner once observed, "is more lousy string quartets." It is not for lack of trying. Indeed, the compulsion of amateur musicians to get together for an evening of chamber music is all but irrepressible. An Army officer's wife one day was approached by a stranger who noticed a telltale mark on her neck: "You must play the violin. Would you like to join our group?" A Boston doctor, hearing a man whistling a Mozart theme on the street, whistled back and soon had a date for duets. One desperate violinist pinned notes...
Today, fortunately, there is a more organized way for these weekend musicians to seek one another out-the Amateur Chamber Music Players. It was conceived in 1947 by the late Leonard Strauss, an Indianapolis incinerator manufacturer who grew bored playing his violin in his hotel room while on business trips. Today the A.C.M.P. publishes a directory that lists 6,000 amateur musicians in 50 states and 61 countries. By consulting the directory, a member can arrange a living-room concert in virtually any city in the world...
...article ridiculing local wines. When a project to renovate Los Angeles' downtown plaza stalled for three years, the magazine Los Angeles got it going again with an all-out assault on city and state agencies that were holding it up. Even Atlanta, which remains a Chamber of Commerce publication, has run pieces debunking the Ku Klux Klan and questioning the city's cultural pretensions...
...Pierian Sodality of 1808 will present a concert of twentieth-century chamber music at 8:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 12 on the Loeb main stage. Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will perform Villa-Lobos' Sixth String Quartet, Carter's Sonata for flute, oboe, cello, and harp sichord, Varese's "Density 21.5." A chorus will perform the world premiere of James Yannatos's "A Modern Dialogue...
Below its roofs, Sydney's opera house shelters spaces to inspire a cultural bonanza. Its two large halls will seat 2,800 and 1,100 respectively. The complex also contains a 300-seat chamber-music room, a 400-seat subterranean experimental theater, and a restaurant that can serve 250 people. There are 19 rehearsal rooms, including one large enough to hold an entire 120-man symphony orchestra. "Big shapes hold no fear for me," says Utzon, whose father was a naval architect...