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Apple Hill Chamber Players play music of Barber, Sousa, Druckman. Tickets available at the door. Longy School...
...five Sarah was a good enough fiddler to play chamber music with adults. By six she was giving concerts as far away as Chicago. When her mother married Henry Alexander, a political scientist at the University of Arkansas, Sarah was pleased. "He kept a dictionary on the dinner table," Caldwell recalls...
THEA MUSGRAVE, 47, has written chamber music, ballet and opera. "Music is a human art, not a sexual one," she says. "Sex is no more important than eye color." When Britain's Musgrave talks about "space music," she is not referring to synthetic sci-fi sounds but to compositions in which the players are directed to move about the concert hall...
...Rinaldo, Handel wrote some of his most striking orchestral music. The blazing forth of four trumpets and drums in Rinaldo's last-act aria "Or la tromba "was an effect that dazzled early 18th century audiences, and it still sounds good today. With a chamber orchestra drawn from the Houston Symphony, Conductor Lawrence Foster, the symphony's regular leader since 1972, makes his players key members of the drama. He cannot draw from Sopranos Evelyn Mandac (Almirena) and Noelle Rogers (Armida) the Baroque bravura he gets from Home, but Mandac is an especially lovely singer with a bright...
...CORNER of the Orpheum's smoking room--a naked, exhausted, once elegant chamber--three punks snickered down on their joint. "We don't know much about Jimmy Cliff," one yellow-suspendered and hairy-lipped kid said, "but we like him." And at that moment last Saturday night Jimmy Cliff was giving himself to an audience neither young, punkish, nor unfamiliar with his music, but which also had a blind faith in the reggae singer. From his first number, Fundamental Reggae, the house was alive and poised on the brink of each high-throated, smooth verse, silent in the lyric wave...