Rockefeller, the founder of the Standard Oil Company and (at that time) richest man in the world.

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"U.S. antipathy to oil companies goes back to the Standard Oil Trust over 100 years ago, " he said, referring to the company John D.

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Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co. had abused its monopoly power to keep others from competing and ordered the company to divide into 34 separate companies.

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Nothing can disguise the problems facing a new orchestra of foreigners playing to an unsophisticated audience in an 864-seat concert hall (a standard hall seats about 2, 500), at the mercy of a single corporate sponsor (the state oil company, Petronas), and in a tropical climate that makes instruments come unglued.

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