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...Musici goes conductorless by choice, does not even admit the existence of a first violinist because it wishes to reproduce as precisely as possible the organization of early Italian orchestras. The musicians interrupt their rehearsals when any one of them feels that another has made a mistake. Because the leaderless method could cause endless bickering, I Musici picks its players for personality as well as technique, spends weeks studying the best soloists in Italy before naming a replacement...
...What did interrupt this continuity were the periodic barbarian invasions which jolted the civilization from its static condition. These invasions coincide with a new force and vigor...
...Scala since he was ten years old. Carrara and Alabisio attend every La Scala dress rehearsal, talk to the leading singers to find out if they want applause at unexpected places, finally discuss the completed applause script with the conductor to make sure that it will not interrupt his inspiration. (The one person whom even the most skillful claqueur cannot beat is a conductor determined to drown applause with a full orchestra...
...Start all this before calling the doctor. Then ask the doctor to visit the patient rather than interrupt the treatment...
...research strategy is to interrupt thought processes and study them in parts. For example, visual perception involves seeing many things simultaneously. Bruner breaks down this process with a gadget called an "ambiguitor," which brings a picture into focus so gradually that a viewer gets trapped into false hypotheses about what he is seeing. Result: embryo techniques for perceiving more astutely. The Center bustles with other odd projects, from teaching quadratic functions to young children to time-lapse photographs of tots drawing (the best way to see how they see). All this is pure research, but out of it may someday...