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SEEKING to woo audiences, some symphony orchestras have been opening rehearsals to the public.
While it is true that some symphony orchestras are experiencing financial difficulties (Arts pages, Oct. 25), it is important to recognize the vast number of healthy orchestra institutions -- the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the orchestras of Cleveland, Dallas and Baltimore, to name but a few.
A few years before the New Mexico Symphony folded, my brother Kevin, serving at the time as the orchestra's executive director, took me one summer evening on a fundraising visit to the home of some symphony patrons.
They are showing Nosferatu tonight at the Village East Cinema with a live score, and before you go rolling your eyes back over to the bar, it's not some symphony nerds painstakingly recreating the original accompaniment for a bunch of pie-eyed Upper West Side self-congratulators like they always do at the fucking Cloisters or wherever.
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The immortal reply: "Some symphonies, most concertos".
For some years, symphony orchestras have not been confident to play this music.
Some 40 symphony players were involved; 10 or 12 more were turned away, too much for the system to accommodate.
In addition, she was an accomplished cook, best-selling author, and concert pianist who performed with some 100 symphony orchestras in the United States under the pseudonym Dame Illya Dillya.
His muscle tone is bulged and balanced -- so much so that when the colt runs, he looks like a perfect heart being pumped around the track by some unheard symphony.
And just as the waiter is Sartre's man playing at being a waiter, I am a man playing at being a solo diner, as I pull out my solo props of novel and notebook and sit there going through the charade of scribbling away furiously, like my solitude is elective so I can work on some great symphony or crack cancer.
There was no money for an exterminator, but there were dozens of rat traps in the kitchen, all coated in peanut butter and set out on the floor, and as soon as we'd turn off the lights they'd start going off -- just popping and snapping to the tune of some sick symphony.
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