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...visits campuses and towns throughout the region as a sort of floating miniconservatory, offering clinics, master classes and discussion groups in addition to its concerts. In its main subscription series at St. Paul's 1,700-seat O'Shaughnessy Auditorium, the orchestra has become all but a sellout, precisely by avoiding safe subscription fare. "A concert hall doesn't have to be a museum," says Davies. "What's exciting is if somebody starts booing and somebody else answers with a pretty loud cheer." Especially if, as in St. Paul, the cheers far outnumber the boos...
MOST BAD MOVIES have some redeeming virtues--an ambitious idea, a suspenseful moment, some good acting, a little imaginative direction. Hardcore, however, is only interesting as evidence director Paul Schrader's professional sellout. As he plods through a made-for-TV-story, Schrader shows no inclination to communicate anything but his boredom...
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Muscovites had never heard or seen anything quite like it. For ten days, Boney M, a four-member Jamaican reggae-disco group whose recorded tunes consistently top the pop charts of Europe, wriggled and pranced through a sellout engagement at the huge 2,700-seat concert hall at Moscow's Rossiya Hotel, while mounted police held back thousands of other fans and onlookers outside...
...Crimson--with five of the eight regular players making their varsity debuts--battled gamely throughout the contest against the oversized Minutemen, but the UMass five busted through the Harvard defense for 45 second-half points to put it away before a sellout crowd...