Conducted by its founder, Thomas C. Crawford, it offers, as its catchphrase puts it, "music as the masters heard it": namely, with period-appropriate instruments like wooden flutes, violins with gut strings and valveless horns.
This debate is too serious to be subjected to the rules of Washington's game, even as it must be conducted by its gamesmen.
Conducted by its new music director, Joshua Gersen, it was precise in attack in the first movement and, aside from hiccups in the brasses, focused later on.
In its first visit to the United States, it is to be conducted by its music director, Myung-Whun Chung, in Messiaen's grandly scaled "Turangalila" Symphony and the Debussy classic "La Mer".
On Friday, it will team up with the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, conducted by its namesake, for a program of 20th-century a cappella works presented by Lincoln Center's Great Performers series at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Here, conducted by its music director, James Litton, and with the New York Collegium playing period instruments, it performs works by Franz Joseph Haydn's younger brother, Michael, a fascinating composer in his own right.
It has been used to extend the sky survey conducted by its sister instrument, the 1.2-metre (48-inch) Schmidt telescope at the Palomar Observatory, to the southern skies.
11, 12 and 35, conducted by its music director, Zdenek Macal.
Yemen insisted yesterday that the fight against al-Qaida must be conducted by its own forces.
The program also included a repeat performance of Peter Martins's "Harmonielehre," conducted by its composer, John Adams.
This weekend's program by the New York Chamber Symphony, conducted by its founding director, Gerard Schwarz, is typically adventurous.
