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...first, the faint buzzing blends in with the crisp notes and trills of Glenn Gould's recording of Bach's "Prelude in C Minor." Perhaps the tape is a bad copy, or the stereo is acting up again. Then the distracting noise grows louder, more insistent, until it can no longer be dismissed as a mechanical error. In fact, it is Gould singing along with his own performance as he always did on the stage and in the recording studio. Throughout his search for technical perfection, he hummed along audibly and slightly off-key. In many ways the odd combination...
Radcliffe Choral Society.Presents " A Celebration of Spring," with special guests, the Brown University Chours. Works to be performed include compositions by Bach, Bartok, Joplin and Michael Haydn. Sanders Theatre, 8 p .m. $5 for students...
...permissible. Stylistically unpredictable and resolutely uncompromising -- there are no "Socialist Realist" elements in his music, no compositions celebrating factories at work or peasants at play -- Schnittke's music is fundamentally deconstructive. It uses the past as raw material for the present, often referring to or quoting directly from Bach, Mozart and other Germanic composers and then tearing them apart in a destructive analytical frenzy that would have terrified Freud. "I attempt to compose symphonies," Schnittke wrote in a program note to his Third Symphony, "although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless...
This season's emotional center, however, was the latest alliance of Baryshnikov and Jerome Robbins. Set to Bach cello music, A Suite of Dances is $ also a solo, a moody exploration of man and movement, much of it autumnal in tone. Though less frequent than the partnership with Tharp, Baryshnikov's relationship with Robbins is deepening. A Suite is the choreographer's first new dance in five years. "For a while, I didn't feel in condition; I couldn't feel my body," says Robbins, 75, who looked spry and acute in rehearsal. "But Misha wanted to try something...
...Chapel Concert Series. Presents a performance of Bach flute sonatas. MIT Chapel, opposite 77 Mass Ave., Cambridge, noon. Free...