She returns to this bread-and-butter repertory in a program this weekend with the conductorless Orpheus chamber orchestra.
Mr. Sandler, two decades younger, is still active, singing American and European repertory in an act called "Chevalier: Maurice & Me".
As a member of our company for over 30 years Muriel created some of the most vibrant and memorable characters in our opera repertory, in a wide variety of roles beginning with her debut as Olga Olsen in "Street Scene" in 1963.
That would expand the repertory in a useful way and let the composers stretch as well.
The season offers an eclectic repertory in a theater that enables audiences to savor fine details of dancing and choreography.
Its name notwithstanding, the nearly 20-year-old Mendelssohn Quartet has made a point of exploring the contemporary repertory; and in a concert on Saturday at the 92nd Street Y, the New York premiere of Mario Davidovsky's Fifth Quartet proved an arresting centerpiece to a 19th-century program.
The play, a co-production of the Manhattan Theater Club and South Coast Repertory in California, centers on a novelist, played by Alan Arkin, preparing for a Hollywood adaptation of his book.
Ms. Jacker came to prominence in Off Broadway, regional and repertory theater in the early 1970s.
Mrs. Hulse, 32, is a senior director for artists and repertory administration in New York for Sony Music.
"Landowska was so important in reviving the harpsichord and its repertory in the 20th century.
For his own part, Mr. Moores has no trouble following Italian, German and French repertory in the original.
