Two distinguished chamber ensembles are visiting next Sunday, Germany's Trio Fontenay, and the Takacs Quartet, which was founded in Hungary but now has a residency at the Barbican in London and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Very quiet, very distinguished chamber, carpeted in red with gold stars; has numerous shiny brass spittoons near the mahogany desks, and each desk bears a small nameplate, a white quill pen, a silver-topped inkwell, and a bottle of blotting sand.
He then launched a long career in Hollywood as a top clarinetist for film studios and became a distinguished chamber musician, who may have been best known for his numerous performances with the Budapest String Quartet and the Muir String Quartet.
The Ukrainian-American violinist Oleh Krysa was long esteemed in the former USSR as a distinguished soloist, chamber musician and teacher.
The programs for July and August are particularly rich, with performances of popular composers like Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Gounod, Dvorak, Granados and others, played by distinguished soloists, chamber groups and orchestras.
The mosque's white heroes' mausoleum evokes the historic practice of placing distinguished burial chambers within mosques but, in this case, it's adapted to Malaysian ideas about statehood.
(Schweitzer) Reiko Uchida, Jennifer Gilbert and Eric Jim (Wednesday) The excellent pianist Reiko Uchida, especially noted for her distinguished work in chamber music, is joined by the violinist Jennifer Gilbert and the cellist Eric Kim for a program at Weill Recital Hall presented by the Abby Whiteside Foundation.
During its many intervals I sat in a huge reception chamber for distinguished guests, empty except for a general of the Korean People's Army in full uniform silently drinking tea at the other end.
Fiterstein has performed in recital, with distinguished orchestras, and with chamber music ensembles throughout the world.
The recitalists were not your usual ship's musicians putting on airs: The Steinway was played by the distinguished artistic director of chamber music at the Spoleto Festival USA and founder of Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society in New York, Charles Wadsworth, and the violin by one of the festival's regular stars, the young and strikingly beautiful Korean, Chee-Yun.
The upper stories included rooms for the senior Bastille staff, and chambers for distinguished prisoners.
