title: Orchestra: The LSO: A Century of Triumph and Turbulence
author:  Richard Morrison 
description: <DIV><b>Richard Morrison</b> is the chief music critic for <i>The Times of London.</i><br></div>
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  Star Wars
  
  
  Gamer Magazine
  
  
  N 10
  
  
  Handoff
  
  
  by Timothy Zahn;
  
  
  Illustrated by Dave Dorman
  
  
  updated : 11.XI.2006
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  In ones and twos, with a gentle clatter and a dignified bustle, the musicians
  started to drift onstage. They moved to their assigned seats or stands,
  gathered their instruments, and began the muted cacophony of their individual
  warm-up procedures. The audience, which had been abuzz with the usual pre-
  concert conversation, quieted itself in inverse proportion to the increasing
  noise from the stage, an air of anticipation rising from the assemblage and
  spreading over it like an invisible fog.
  
  
  As well it should. Here, on this benighted Mid-Rim world of Chibias, the
  Coruscant Full Symphony was about to perform.
  
  
  Seated in the twelfth-to-the-last row, two seats in from the left-most aisle,
  Mara Jade took a deep breath and tried to savor the moment. She had always
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