1.   The University Opera Club performs notable pieces outside the standard repertory and the Savoy Opera Club presents a Gilbert and Sullivan opera each year.

2.   Although he concentrated mostly on the standard orchestral repertory, he could surprise listeners with his adventurousness.

3.   And just as one expects standard repertory to be memorized, the presumption with complex new works is that they will be played from the music.

4.   Are there special qualities he will bring to standard repertory?

5.   As music director of the Orchestre National de Lyon, he has covered the standard repertory thoroughly.

6.   As with any standard repertory, familiarity can breed complacence.

7.   A colleague with a bent for the adventurous has pulled the standard repertory from his shelves altogether and presents gleaming lineups of the avant-garde and the out-of-the-way.

8.   But City Opera, like other companies, pays the bills through standard repertory.

9.   But when theater goes for broke it takes us past our standard repertory of responses.

10.   Conductors have their own ideas about each opera, naturally, but so do the string sections that have played the standard repertory for decades.