And that seems only fair since they were basically the ones who unbalanced it in the first place when they worked in splendid bipartisan concert in 2001 to pass George W. Bush's first $1.6 trillion in tax cuts.
Libraries, of course, a university, splendid museums, a gilded concert hall: Carnegie's largess to Pittsburgh is still overwhelming even a century after the previous Gilded Age.
Sir Simon's concert -- peopled by splendid musicians working hard and joyously, and experienced by an enthusiastic audience -- still had more to do with separation than with contact.
CRESCENT AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH " Splendid Legacy," operetta and musical theater concert Today at 3 p.m Tickets: $12 $88 for students and older people.
I got cozy in my Splendid sweats and a Black Keys concert tee, wrapped myself in one of my cherished embroidered Indian shawls and ordered in some of my favorite British comfort foods: shepherd's pie, rhubarb crumble and custard from Tea & Sympathy.
Scattered among the umbrella pines that now dot the site are a splendid amphitheatre which is still used for concerts, and the remains of schools, baths, temples and latrines, as well as Europe's oldest synagogue.
The most recent recording, a 1995 concert version of "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg," makes for a splendid coda.
The immediate past is displayed in the New Jersey premiere of Richard Danielpour's "Toward the Splendid City" from 1996, which opens the orchestra's first concert Sept. 14, and is to be repeated in Trenton and Newark.
Yet this engaging concert, featuring the distinguished pianist Nelson Freire and the splendid tenor Lawrence Brownlee and conducted by the dynamic Louis Langrée, who is celebrating his 10th season as the festival's music director, was a demonstration of how much Mostly Mozart has been revitalized in recent years.
