1.   Creating a similar, but Irish-based, fusion, the Eileen Ivers band electrified a familiar repertory.

2.   Familiar repertory dominates at Bargemusic, which operates on a tight budget that limits rehearsal time.

3.   Neither singer, unfortunately, displaces or even challenges several sopranos who have preceded them in this familiar repertory.

4.   On two stunningly engineered Mercury disks, Kubelik conducts the Chicago Symphony in music by Mussorgsky, Bartok and Smetana, giving imaginative accounts of familiar repertory.