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...players' association, told the rulers of the National Hockey League at a crisis meeting in New York. Eighteen teams compete in the N.H.L., some subsidiaries of large conglomerates. No significant cash appeared, and at length the owners could not decide whether to bury the Barons quietly to Chopin or more dramatically to Siegfried's funeral music from Götterdämmerung...
Dunster House Music Society presents pianist Daniel Ullman in a recital of Chopin's Preludes, Op. 28. Dunster House Library. 5:30 p.m. Free...
Kirkland House Music Society sponsors a concert by Debbie Sobol, pianist. Works of Haydn, Chopin, Brahms, and Imbrie. Kirkland House Junior Common Room. 8:30 p.m. Free...
GEORGE SAND was an infamous woman. Her much flaunted affairs with Chopin, de Musset and innumerable other artists and writers, her publicized separation from her husband (who probably fathered only one of the two children bearing his name), even her attire and habits--she regularly appeared in Parisian theatres sporting a suit of man's clothes, smoking Turkish cigarettes--provided reams of copy for 19th century scandal sheets and an inexhaustible gossip topic for European salons. But in this new biography, Joseph Barry correctly points out that Sand was more than the mistress of famous men and deserves...
...except perhaps in her long-term, probably lesbian affair with Marie Dorval, Barry uses Sand's letters and journal entries to show this was far from the case. Nor, Barry proves, was Sand neurotically seeking to be the "male" in her heterosexual relationships. Some of her lovers--including consumptive Chopin--were "weak", younger and easily dominated. But Sand was also capable of being pathetically submissive, promising one brutal lover, on the verge of deserting her, she'd be his "devoted black slave...