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a circle of five asterisks when a loud brass pas sage is coming up. When we see the asterisks, we know it's time to insert ear plugs to pro tect our hearing.) Since a few of my colleagues could not attend, our ranks were reinforced by the wife of one violist and two of our regular substi tutes. One of those subs, Diane Mues, won the next cso viola audition and is now our colleague-and my wife. I made the arrangement of the national anthem as rich and florid as I could, with elaborate counterpoint and virtuoso passage work. I knew my colleagues would handle beautifully any challenge I gave them. I also knew that nearly 40,000 people would be hearing violas, many for perhaps the only time in their lives, and I was eager to ensure a good impression. The crowd was uncharac teristically quiet as the amplification carried our sound throughout the big old ball park, then roared with approval as we concluded. I'd like to think that our performance in

spired a rather mediocre White Sox team to defeat Roger Clemens that night in one of only four losses he suffered all season. -Maxwell Raimi, contributor of this piece, was born in Detroit and studied viola at the University ofMichigan with Francis Bundra and at the juilliard School with Lillian Fuchs. He has been a member ofthe viola section ofthe Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1984 and has been active in chamber music in Chicago and in festivals throughout the United States. Raimi is also known as a composer; his com positions have been performed at the Library of Congress, at the Paris Opera, and by the Chicago Symphony. Recently, he was heard in a broadcast, performing an arrangement of his own, in a group with Daniel Barenboim and colleagues in the Chicago Symphony. Please submit, for inclusion in future issues of ]A VS, your informative photos of license plates, commercial products, or other unusual associa tions that keep our name before the public.

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