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...Kafka demonstrates, Murakami's Japan is a land of truck stops, rock music, Ray-Bans, Hollywood movies and workouts at the gym. But for his youngish, hip, history-oblivious fans, this is Japan. More than previous Murakami novels, Kafka embraces nearly the entire Western canon, with learned digressions on Beethoven, Schubert, Chekhov, T.S. Eliot and pantheons of ancient Greeks. It's an education in a box, much like the small but mysteriously well-stocked Takamatsu library where Murakami's young Oedipus finds a job as live-in caretaker...
Sure, there have been exceptions (say, Matisse's The Dance), but it would not be a stretch to say that for the past century or so, serious art has been at war with happiness. In 1824, Beethoven completed the "Ode to Joy." In 1962, novelist Anthony Burgess used it in A Clockwork Orange as the favorite piece of his ultraviolent antihero. If someone titles an art movie Happiness, it is a good bet that it will be--as the 1998 Todd Solondz film was--about deeply unhappy people, including a telephone pervert and a pedophile...
Student ensembles coached by Robert Levin and Daniel Stepner present two programs of chamber music. Listen in awe as the orchestras play the works of Ravel, Faure, Beethoven, Ritter and Mozart and songs of Poulenc, Strauss, Schubert and Wolf. 7:30 p.m. Free. Also Monday at 7:30 p.m. Paine Hall Music Building...
...works of classic songwriters like Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers--the so-called Great American Songbook. In the annals of composition, he maintains, "these songs represent a new blueprint for a truly American style. They will always be vital and au courant, as timeless as Beethoven." Over the past few years, with his trio mates, Peter Washington on bass and Kenny Washington (no relation) on drums, Charlap has built on that blueprint in a succession of beguiling and acclaimed CDs on the Blue Note label. Written in the Stars (2000) samples Porter, Gershwin, Irving Berlin and Harold Arlen...
Specializing in the music of the classical period, the Cambridge Society for Early Music presents a tribute to the 18th and 19th century works of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. The one-night concert will feature guest instrumentalist Kenneth Drake on the fortepiano. Tickets $25, $20 for students and senior citizens. Call (617) 495-9400. 7:30 p.m. Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland...