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...beleaguered city of Houston, jinxed in oil and space and now ninthinning rallies, showed particular grace and unusual humor in defeat. A courageous child "soloist" in a pinafore came out on the infield and sang the national anthem before the last game, and the morning after the Chronicle reported, "Around 2 p.m., little Amber Pennington, seven years old, fought her way through The Star-Spangled Banner before the start of the sixth game of the National League Championship Series. Before the game was over, Amber joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts and went to her senior prom. She was married...
...part in the fight outside France and constitutes a normal 'foreign legion,' it claims the reward of ruling the France of tomorrow. It's absurd. The essential characteristic of sacrifice is that it claims no rights." In his politics as well as his piloting, Saint-Exupery proved an inveterate soloist...
...hands, heart and belief at his disposal." A complex, rhapsodic study in tone color, it is particularly well suited to Stern's soulful intonation and vibrant technical flair. "You have to study the whole score and put together the sound in your head totally," explains the soloist. "Then you take the work apart measure by measure. You must learn the work from the inside; you work slowly until it becomes yours." Stern's dashing reading with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal under Charles Dutoit convincingly stamped the piece...
...more authentically Spanish than Chabrier's Espana or Ravel's Rhapsodie Espagnole, Lalo's five-movement showpiece for violin and orchestra has never won a firm place in the standard repertory. Sometimes in performance, it even has its third movement omitted, for unfathomable reasons. But a high-spirited, sensitive soloist can make it effective, and Mutter, 22, is that ideal performer. A German whose effortless technique and voluptuous sound put her in the forefront of today's young instrumentalists, she lights up the Iberian peninsula with her dazzling technique. If anything, her performance of Sarasate's lusty Gypsy fantasy Zigeunerweisen...
Private donations will pay for transportation costs and soloist fees, while ticket sales should cover the remaining expenses, said HRO Director Benjamin A. Loeb...