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Gerald Moshell has recruited his usual pick-up orchestra to assist several fine soloists in the final major concert of the year. The featured work will be the Bach Double Concerto with Ronan Lefkowitz and Robert Manero as the violin soloists. Bach's Fourth Brandenburg and Mozart's D-Major Violin Concerto will also be on the program...
...really get off the ground until well into the second half. Like a sonnet reader who calls attention to each iamb, Adams tended to emphasize the repetitive Baroque rhythms at the expense of larger phrases. Part of this problem can be traced to the widespread malady of the pick-up orchestra. This was the usual random group of instrumentalists thrown together to accompany a university choral group and as usual, they plagued the performance with ragged entrances, shaky ensemble, and a sight-reader's insensitivity to the meaning of the music...
Parent understands the concern; he once played in similar amateur programs in his native Montreal. His introduction to hockey came with a tennis ball as a puck and galoshes for skates. The pick-up games were played on neighborhood streets and young Bernie, always a loner, wanted to play goalie from the start. "I stopped the first shot and that settled it," he recalls. "The challenge to make a save was always there. It was just in me." The son of a factory foreman, Parent did not start skating until he was 11, and then his debut in the goal...
...years ago, the Navajo reservation in Arizona where Sue Williams lives had no lights and no paved streets, and people got around by horse and wagon. Now, she says, things are a lot better--nearly everyone has a pick-up truck and some new houses have been built...
...help ease the prognosis of dwindling skiers this winter--especially the weekend droves--many areas are providing daily buses from Boston to the slopes. Waterville Valley has already announced the schedule for its daily buses which start Dec. 8. They will leave from six pick-up points in the Boston area and arrive at Waterville Valley at 10 a.m. The cost for the round trip ticket...