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Boston Symphony Orchestra--Symphony Hall at 7:30. The Cantata Singers--Sanders Theatre...
...aplenty will be offered this week in Cambridge and Boston. Banchette Musicale begins its season on Friday with a performance of baroque and classical music on original instruments. The orchestra will perform Telemann's Ouverture for Oboes, Horns, Bassoon and Strings, concerti by Stamitz and Tartini, and Bach's Cantata 170. Show up at 8:30 in Paine Hall, Music Building. Tickets are $2.50 at the door or by calling...
Linda Feferman's "Liz Swados: The Girl with the Incredible Feeling" is the most dramatic of the films, owing largely to the personality of Swados, composer/director of the hit play "Nightclub Cantata," recently presented by the Boston Repertory Theatre. Swados is a sorcerer, she is a bird, she is a little girl, and she is a demon. Her originality and vitality make the film. At one point, Feferman craftily slides into an animated version of the Swados book with the same title as the film. The film suffers only because it is not as experimental as its subject...
WOMEN ARE the center of these three pieces and women are the strength of Nightclub Cantata. This is not women's theatre, however, and the less impressive men fill half the cast and almost half the script. The fault lies mainly with the script, for the male parts are mostly restricted to humorous numbers which belittle but do not develop character. The men fade into the background, unable to fit the roles of strength and love the women desire for them...
...style that causes Swados so much difficulty also saves her. The weak points fade into the blackouts, while the mood keeps building with each successive piece. The music--calypso, raga, and jazz tunes especially--dull the overly critical senses with their inebriating optimism. You have to smile after Nightclub Cantata. You have a stringer full of speckled trout on a sunny day. Who cares about the big one that got away...