Archives: November 2004

10 Questions for the Maestro

Popular entertainment has changed so much in recent years. How about the symphony? What is best about symphonic music is that it doesn’t change and it is changing all the time, both the music itself and the business of performing it. To succeed we need to invite people we haven’t invited before and once we get them into the hall,…

November Letters

One Tough Cookie My sister-in-law got a subscription to your magazine last year for Christmas. I usually read a portion of it every month. This morning I was reading an article where Mrs. Bush and Mrs. Kerry gave some cookie recipes where the money raised would go to charity. A nice human interest story. In the middle of the article was a…

Meat-Free

Twenty years ago, when Davis Frydman was a college student, he became vegetarian. “I came from a household that ate a lot of meat,” he says, “and I began to sense that meat was not healthy. I didn’t just cut back; I stopped altogether. I’m a ‘cold turkey’ kind of guy.” Frydman, a Concord resident, has become one of the…