Community plays were frequently held there with a local orchestra that played during intermission.

He started to play with local orchestra since he was 15 years old as violist.

He was writing original compositions by age 10, and joined the local orchestra at 14.

There he also played in a local orchestra and learned the piano.

A local orchestra provided the only music until 1978, when the current pavilion was constructed.

By the age of 14, he conducted a composition of his own with the local orchestra.

"There was a great danger for the Gewandhaus to be reduced to just another local orchestra," he said.

The old man is mute and plays the viol with a local orchestra.

So a company chairman earning $750,000 a year and giving $250,000 to the local orchestra would pay tax on only $500,000.

She is also working with a local orchestra and music school to advance 18th-century music.