Pure imagination.

American Composers Orchestra at Zankel Hall

and

Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre: The Love for Three Oranges at Avery Fisher Hall
The New York Times, November 17, 2008

Two notes regarding the second of these articles. First, in the print edition of the Times, the review was credited to Vivien Schweitzer; a correction was added on the web site, where the byline was correct all along. Second, in the penultimate line I meant to write that Alexei Tanovitsky sang his role with an appropriate touch of pathos, not chaos. That was my glitch, not the paper's, and the Times rightly makes no allowances for unintended brain bubbles.