The Met will also plunge into the world of chamber opera, and the artists in residence will be the new-music ensemble Alarm Will Sound.
But since the festival's founding, at the close of the Second World War, chamber music has been a vital part of the enterprise.
His other works include eight symphonies; the ballet Capital of the World (1953); chamber music; and the operas Transatlantic (1930), Helen Retires (1934), Volpone (1953), and The Wish (1955).
He gently prods his patient to step out of his private world, "a chamber often filled with circular and self-devouring ruminations".
TAKÁCS QUARTET This Anglo-American-Hungarian foursome enjoys a high ranking among the world's chamber ensembles, renowned for its combination of expression, intelligence, and restraint.
Mr. Wadsworth "is one of the most successful interfaces between a large public and the very, very large world of chamber music, and through him so many people came to know and love the art form," Mr. Finckel said.
Kronos changed the world of chamber music by making an expanded repertory the center of interest, rather than the constant interpretive refinement of the classics pursued by more traditional quartets.
Virginia Woolf wrote of him: "We are in the presence of sublime imagination; now rambling through one of the finest lumber rooms in the world — a chamber stuffed from floor to ceiling with ivory, old iron, broken pots, urns, unicorns' horns, and magic glasses full of emerald lights and blue mystery".
Collaboration is an essential force in the world of chamber music.
The Amber Room is a world famous chamber decorated in amber panels backed with gold leafs and mirrors, located in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg.
Of course, within the drug world echo chamber it's easy to forget that two-thirds of people in England and Wales have never taken an illegal drug in their lifetime.
