41.   Still, he is not looking to expand his horizons, which have never extended greatly beyond standard repertory.

42.   Somehow, he never lost the simplicity of his childhood poems in the lyrics he later wrote for the composers who created the standard American repertory of popular music.

43.   Still, it is not quite standard repertory.

44.   The American dream, in operatic terms, still tends toward star-driven productions of standard repertory, presented more or less conventionally.

45.   The classical end has managed up to now by recording the standard repertory and then recording it again.

46.   The concert reaffirmed that the New York Philharmonics of the world are not the only ensembles music lovers need turn to for the standard repertory.

47.   The Brahms was the Violin Concerto, that dour beauty of the standard repertory.

48.   The critics who bemoan the museum mentality of much classical programming today, and I include myself in this group, are not bored with the standard repertory.

49.   The challenge of keeping this standard repertory fresh is made more difficult by the schedule the orchestra maintains, with three separate programs to prepare for each weekend.

50.   The emphasis on standard repertory in this first batch of recordings extends to the concerto.