1.   Audiences at recitals, orchestra concerts and the opera are drawn largely from the middle class.

2.   Colin Davis, a particularly thoughtful Sibelian, presided over this orchestra concert at Avery Fisher Hall.

3.   Consistently high-level orchestra concerts have come not from the Orchestre de Paris but through the regular visits of the London Philharmonia.

4.   People no longer play string quartets at home and audiences for chamber music are smaller than audiences for orchestra concerts.

5.   The final setting of the canopy for orchestra concerts will depend on what happens with the acoustical chambers.

6.   This week will offer chamber music Thursday and Friday and an all-Vivaldi orchestra concert Saturday.