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Short, apple-round and learnedly garrulous, Ambrose ambles through his adventures preceded by a pillar of chaos. While bodies are felled and dark deeds are done all about him, the philosophy don lets Bach's Magnificat sing through his mind, ruminates about Hegel, and numbs his listeners with a flow of quotes from the Bible, Shakespeare, major poets and minor limericists. On the track of a murderer, Ambrose, like an unleashed puppy, will spot a new scent-a hitherto unexplored connection between the Book of Kings and the lost Amazonian city of Pirahuanaco...
...Foreign Office, and he wants a few weeks of peace before the fall term starts at Oxford. But he needs money (he has worked out a scheme to pauperize the Grimaldis' gambling hell at Monte Carlo), and a millionaire industrialist offers him ?500 to truffle out some missing Bach concertos...
...Casals threw himself into the three-week Prades Festival with an enthusiasm that would tax the stamina of a far younger man. He scheduled himself to appear at least once in every one of the 13 concerts, playing eight sonatas (Bach, Beethoven, Brahms) and the cello parts in six chamber music ensembles...
James F. Armstrong, organist for the Summer School, will present his second organ recital on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. in Memorial Church. Works by Buxtehude, Bach, Mendelssohn, Frescobaldi, Pachelbel, and others will be performed...
...weather and continual cloudiness marred the entire Tanglewood week-end, which featured a Friday night performance of four Suites by Bach, and the piano concerto and Art of the Fugue on Saturday night...