LAST Wednesday, an enterprising Off Broadway company called Rattlestick Productions began a three-week festival devoted to Harry Kondoleon's work.
The opening turned out to be eight openings, all part of a 4-week festival devoted to the presentation of Beethoven's "Fidelio," Mozart's "Don Giovanni", etc.
Inland, it's a different story: narrow streets, a beautiful small 19th-century theater and a two-week festival devoted to the town's most famous son, Gioachino Rossini.
And even if the benefit packs Avery Fisher Hall to its capacity of 2,800, it will be a bit of a deflation in attendance for Mr. Staley and most of his fellow musicians, who perform to devoted subway crowds every week that easily top 10,000.
The concert lifts the curtain on a season that will offer, among other attractions, Beethoven's complete symphonies and piano concertos, the world premieres of commissions by Stephen Hartke and Poul Ruders, a three-week festival devoted to Charles Ives, a semi-staged production of Bernstein's "Candide" and more than 60 20th- and 21st-century works.
He's so devoted, in fact, that for weeks he doesn't notice that Mr. Goulian has filled the review's office with his stuffed animals.
The borough's only three-star Michelin restaurant (one of seven in the city) has a three-star review from The New York Times and attracts a devoted clientele that reserves six weeks ahead.
Yet, based on the testimony of players, Ohr figured that students devoted between forty and fifty hours a week to football, and just twenty to school.
This week marks the beginning of DOC NYC, the two-week long festival devoted to documentary storytelling of all kinds.
