"Now I had to get a Social Security number, an accountant — and it was a shock, with so much repertoire to learn and every concert a debut.
"But it is very much in concert with what we trying to do".
"This diffuses the sound, making this relatively small room the acoustical equivalent to a much larger concert hall".
"It wasn't so much a concert as a church meeting, but I still told him to fuck off," he says.
This annual event is not so much a concert as a parade of singers: in this case, Christine Goerke, Renée Fleming, Stephanie Blythe, Marcello Giordani, Dwayne Croft, Samuel Ramey and others.
Royal Albert Hall, SW7, Fri Edinburgh would have done well to have invited Opera North to bring its much acclaimed concert staging of The Ring to this year's festival.
Never before have the traditionally independent military and law enforcement organizations worked so much in concert, sharing information and expertise as Al Qaeda tries to reconstitute itself in Pakistan.
Joint appearances by rock legends are a much cherished concert phenomenon for performers (and audiences) who won't be seeing their hot youth ever again.
This is not so much a concert as an industry party thrown by Virgin Records, and it's a tough room.
Instead, Mr. Schickele decided to present a greatly scaled-down program at a much smaller concert hall, Symphony Space, for two performances, Wednesday and yesterday.
