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...outdoor concert at Radcliffe Quad on Saturday at 2 pm. Baritone Sanford Sylvan and pianist Peter Lurye perform Schumann, Wagner, Debussy, Wolf and Falla on Sunday at 8:30 pm in South House. The next day, Jim Ross and Jessica Krash play piano-and-horn works by Haydn, Chopin, Schumann and Ginastera--same place, same time. Finally, David Sogg and Peter Lurye give a bassoon and piano recital of Bach, Vivaldi, Beethoven and Weber on Wednesday...
...Woodses have been informed that their home, their phones, even their two cars are bugged. Plainclothesmen keep their house under surveillance. Woods gets up after 8:30 a.m., an hour later than in his newspaper days. A gifted amateur pianist, he practices, for an hour, Chopin's B-minor Sonata-which, his wife says, should take him a month to master. "It's a virtuoso piece," says Wife Wendy 36 who must now speak for her husband. "The piece has been sitting in the house for years just waiting for Donald " There is lunch at the big kitchen...
...lust, all right, but in the person of Frank Langella as a demonic force from the nether world, there is also a doomed lyrical romanticism, a nocturne by Chopin, infused into the play. Tall, slender, incomprehensible as magic, garbed in a cape of Stygian splendor, with a face sculptured in alabaster, Langella's Dracula is no flittering bat but the noblest prince of darkness-the fallen Lucifer-as the play makes elliptically clear, whom only the Cross and the stake can bring to his apocalyptic destiny. Langella has always been a spectral, neurasthenic figure onstage with a temperament...
...signs turned off. And it doesn't look so good to you. But their headlights shimmer in the rain and are kind of pretty and the sidewalks look like patent leather with all the garbage washed off for once...maybe if you weren't sated all the time with Chopin and ivy-covered brick and first editions of Shelley you might get something out of this back street, might see beyond being nervous about what or who was in those shadows. Your friend sits down on the curb and you'd envy him his ease but you know that...
Finally, in the Hub: Bach, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Chopin and Liszt make up the delegation at the New England Conservatory recital in Jordan Hall, Sunday at 3. It's free, there'll be munchies and the Rachmaninoff. Boston University Wind Ensemble, conducted by Paul Gay, airs Barber's First Symphony and other works at the School for the Arts tomorrow night. The BU Faculty Chamber Music Ensemble begins its season on Monday. Both BU concerts are at 855 Commonwealth Ave. Stay in Cambridge this week for the Bach Soc and other programs which definitely look worthwhile...