Word: expectancies
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...music you performed at the start of your career is still being performed today. Well-known pieces by composers like Mozart and Brahms are what audiences expect to hear. Is there room out there for new works by contemporary composers? In an art museum, there's a permanent collection of the masters, and then there's the visiting collection of newer work. It's the same thing in music. In the great cities of the world, there's definitely an audience for the new. And I think it's our duty to promote the new music...
...have trouble believing you're going to hang up your clarinet for good once you retire. I expect to be involved in music. I'm a player, and a player will always play. I've really been very lucky to have done this for my life's work...
...crop of chef memoirs includes a rather haughty cooking-school diary (Katherine Darling's Under the Table) and the life and times of a pastry chef (Dalia Jurgensen's Spiced) - naughtier than you'd expect - but the best of them by a mile is by a former chef of no particular distinction named Jason Sheehan, now an extraordinarily good food writer. Cooking Dirty is his account of a career spent largely at what he calls "the low end of the culinary world": late-night shifts at diners, bars and neighborhood joints. Some of it is pure drudgery - like prepping...
...clearest sign of Kennedy's absence from the committee is what's still missing from the draft legislation. Committee chair members on Capitol Hill generally prefer to go into markup with a version of a bill that is as close as possible to what they expect to see in the finished product. However, the HELP Committee will begin its work with one that is missing many of its central components. Among the contentious items still to be worked out are the shape of a government-run public health plan to compete with private insurance and an expected requirement that nearly...
...might expect, the service does not come cheap. The joining fee is over $80,000, with a roughly $20,000 yearly subscription, but Faure Beaulieu has sufficient faith in the product's appeal to already be planning a flurry of international membership drives. "I think more and more people are interested in wines these days. Even with the credit crisis, there's room for another model." Such confidence calls for a toast...