1.   A director who began his career with a deft chamber piece has now at last attempted a symphony.

2.   During this period, he also continued to write ballets, orchestral works, chamber pieces and settings for solo voice and orchestra.

3.   If the new symphony or chamber piece or opera is to have a real shot at entering the repertory, then third and fourth and fifth presentations must happen.

4.   Just one work by John Harbison is included, even though this Pulitzer Prize-winning composer has written many chamber pieces that have been performed widely.

5.   This is a novel project for Bass, who up to now has specialized in intimate chamber pieces.

6.   This is really a chamber piece, a duet for mother and son.

7.   Violinists, violists, clarinetists and string quartets make the sonatas and chamber pieces marquee events.

8.   The second half of the concert consisted mostly of operatic excerpts shared between the mezzo soprano and the tenor together with three short chamber orchestral pieces in between.