She invited the chamber to imagine what it was like for a 13-year-old girl who was told at school her ancestors were the closest thing to stone-age men.
He is one of 15 guest members — not-yet-household names such as Jean-Paul Knott, Alexis Mabille and Richard René — invited by the chamber in an effort to inject fresh talent into that extravagant and unprofitable enterprise.
All summer, faculty, students and invited colleagues offer chamber music of all sorts on the grounds of the Ellen Battell Stoeckel estate in this handsome little town hugging the Connecticut and Massachusetts border.
"On the bright green cover was an anthropomorphic locomotive puffing its way up a hill... its headlight was a cheerful eye which seemed to invite Jake Chambers to come inside and read all about it," writes King.
Later, noticing Mr. Kruger sitting by himself, he invited him across the chamber and they chatted.
Born in the northern Italian town of Legnano in 1750, he had been brought to Vienna aged 15, where he was introduced to his later mentor, Gluck, and to the emperor, Joseph II. Salieri was invited to join in chamber music sessions with the emperor, and soon found himself launched on a career in the imperial court.
The lawyers insisted that the Bassmans had no legal standing, but the judge invited everyone into her chambers.
He went before a judge, Samuel Zoll, who invited him into his chambers and asked him about his life.
In 1989, at a meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev and Pope John Paul II, Father Cascia was invited to the papal chambers to witness the event.
In a 1987 interview on National Public Radio, Brennan recalled his introduction to the other members of the Court this way: "Chief Justice Warren invited me to his chambers, and from there we went up to the third floor of the Supreme Court Building.
