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...Saturday, there's a Renaissance crafts fair on Arrow Street starting at 10 a.m., a wide range of instrument workshops at Agassiz house at 2 p.m., a Courtyard Folk Forum at something called the TAC courtyard at 2 p.m. A rock-blues concert featuring Roxbury Crossing will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday on the Charles bank, again near the Weeks Bridge...
Sunday there's a Charles River rock-folk concert at 2 p.m. and a Renaissance-and-classical concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Agassiz House living room...
Having even less hint of a purpose than most of Gilbert's plots makes Ruddigore not just more consistent but consistently funnier and better humored (since Gilbert generally mistook seriousness for irritability) than it would be otherwise. And it lets almost everything in the Agassiz production work well, from Peter Kellogg's direction of the presumably mousy chorus of professional bridesmaids as though they were so many mice to a somewhat shabby-looking first-act set whose slightly bedraggled ocean seems cheerfully appropriate to everything else...
...some political figures, but being more ingenious than they, he finds a way out. Listen for the madrigal in the first-act finale--in fact, if only because it may be Gerald Moshell's last show here, you might listen to it all. Opens tonight at 8:30 at Agassiz...
...bureau acts as a world clearinghouse for news of astronomical discoveries. It soon became evident to Marsden that the second comet was no ordinary visitor from distant space. After making some rush observations of his own ("We spent a very tense weekend out at Harvard Observatory's Agassiz Station"), he reported that the comet Kohoutek had been sighted at a distance of roughly 480 million miles from earth, barely within the orbit of Jupiter. (Halley's comet, by contrast, was not found on its last approach until it was some 180 million miles closer to earth-even though...