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...insists festival director Leo Schofield, "and that is just that building on Bennelong Point." Indeed, whatever quibbles you might have with the Opera House's acoustics or the dinginess of its orchestral pit, Utzon's poetic sails provide a charged and sacred space for musicians. As the Australian Chamber Orchestra's artistic director and lead violinist Richard Tognetti points out, "There's a certain gladiatorial aspect...
...complaint will not be alone. I noticed several bizarre abuses of music during the Philadelphia convention. One morning I snuck into the arena and caught the orchestra rehearsing. It was quite surreal. Three tunes especially caught...
...percent of their delegates who happened to be African-American by including the O'Jays 1973 hit "Love Train" ("People all over the world/ join hands/ and start a Love Train...") However it was without doubt the World's Least Funky Version ever. It made the Percy Faith Orchestra sound like Limp Bizkit. Which is quite a feat...
...orchestra did acquit itself with more aplomb with a rousing version of John Lennon's 1969 Beatles tune "Come Together," which eventually materialized as the build-up to Dick Cheney's climactic speech on Wednesday evening...
...make the VCR work. It swallows the tape in a businesslike way - so far, so good; it shows promising bright preliminary fuzz and static, like an orchestra tuning up... and then it goes abruptly black...