The Washington Post, February 1st, 2000
An ice storm and a big football game kept attendance low at the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's Sunday afternoon performance. The Kennedy Center Terrace Theater had more open seats than occupied ones, and even the scheduled piano soloist, Radu Lupu, was unable to make it for a performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23. The show went on, with Copland's "Appalachian Spring" substituted for the Mozart, and the audience invited to move closer to the stage, like students beckoned to the front in a nearly empty lecture hall. The Orpheus ensemble is known best for performing without a conductor, for...
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