Mr. Schwarz and his players got to the heart of this version, which is steeped in the energetic urban cacophony of the 1920's.

The sound of gunshots has become such a routine part of the urban cacophony here that the police say many residents do not even bother to call them anymore.

You and your friends are at the local course, enjoying a relaxing 18 holes, away from the urban cacophony.

But residents of 165 Christopher Street say one of their neighbors - BT Summit Office Products - has taken urban cacophony to intolerable extremes.

A Glimpse of the Future Santa Barbara, 85 miles up the coast from the urban cacophony that is Los Angeles, offers a glimpse into a less expansive future in the arid American West.

Perhaps the most interesting message to emerge from this microcosm of urban cacophony has to do with the difference between how women and men are depicted in the public arena.

As Loretta portrays it, her Bronx has an old-fashioned feel, with all the urban cacophony of Elmer Rice's "Street Scene."

She is a habitue of courthouses and dark city streets, capitalizing on the urban cacophony for cover even as it snarls the trails she tries to follow.

In a relatively short time, you can proceed from the urban cacophony of honking taxis and belching buses to the primeval forest, which dispenses its own more charming forms of cacophony.

In New York, it seems, the musical aspirations of people like Mr. Riemer are shared; their desire to apply soothing melody to urban cacophony, understood.