By last September, the program, now a week long, brought in 6,358 for in-depth classes, tours and other entertaining educational activities.
But the orchestra's heavily choreographed visit — to include master classes, tours of the town and a concert on Tuesday night — is the first hint of a broader thaw in a half-century-long cultural standoff.
Sue Wahlert, a museum educator leading Campbell's art-class tour, tried to expand the point.
On her art class tour in college, Ms. Broderick's instructor asked if anyone had heard of the firm.
And Thomas Cook is a top-class tour operator currently sitting on several thousand pounds of mine that I have happily paid up for future travel.
Nobody really minds the middle-class tour groups that fill the sex shows in theaters that are cleaner and better lighted than many Off Broadway houses.
Mr. Biden, speaking to about 400 people at a United Auto Workers union hall, was beginning a two-day trip through the battleground state that the Obama campaign billed as a "Strengthening the Middle Class Tour".
In April, he appeared onstage at Ms. Winfrey's Life Class tour, describing his newfound enlightenment (brought on in part, he said, by weight loss) as a series of "aha orgasms".
I took a seat at a large table in a vaulted underground stone room and was soon joined by a half-dozen foreign travelers, mostly Anglophone, for the afternoon's class, "Tour de France of Wine".
Looming opposite is the Rijksmuseum, of which Greenaway has just given me a first-class tour, embracing the role with relish: rolling his r's, spitting his t's, hammering great deep cleaves between each syllable.
