The eight finalists would spend the following week within the Met's practice chambers, being molded by the Met's coaches and schooled by the conductor for the finals — a concert with the Met orchestra the next Sunday, in front of a packed house.
Back home and next few days mission is solo practice for chamber recital in Amsterdam.
The rules "maintain an overly broad definition of national security, which is contrary to standard international practice," the chamber said.
And current practice aside, chamber music's historical roots are in small rooms, where most of the repertory is heard to best effect.
But the rewarding all-Beethoven concert that the Camerata presented on Sunday afternoon at Avery Fisher Hall showed what can happen when an insightful and trust-inspiring conductor works with fine musicians who are steeped in the collaborative practice of chamber music.
Politics in Hungary was being practiced as chamber music, a few virtuosos performing for a very small audience.
The Assembly's staff never began a formal inquiry, and the matter was not referred to the Assembly's ethics committee, in keeping with a longstanding practice in the chamber of shielding members from embarrassment.
The village is not small: It includes 24 coaching and practice rooms, four chamber ensemble rooms, three percussion studios, three guest-artist suites, a conference room that doubles as a performance space and a separate rehearsal room for Tilson Thomas.
"In that fight, we found out that it might be a good opportunity--if you are going to have the increase anyway, give it to the Chamber of Commerce". O'Dell and Doerr exchanged a few barbs at the council meeting, as has been a practice between the chamber and the mayor on many business-related issues.
Just about the only time she spends away from her job, and the Bushes, is on Sunday afternoons, when Ms. Rice, who trained as a concert pianist, returns from Camp David and practices with a chamber music group.
