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THE CHRISTMAS REVELS. This wonderful mix of classical and traditional music, medieval theater and whatnot else is now staged in seven cities -- Cambridge, Mass.; Hanover, N.H.; New York City; Oakland; Philadelphia; Washington; and Houston. This is not a tour: these are separate productions, each under local control, each a little...
Beethoven's Birthday Concert--with classical music performers from MIT performing Archduke Trio, Serenade in D and other works. In MIT's Kresge Auditorium, 84 Mass. Ave. Monday, Dec. 16 at 8 p.m.
The latest Englishman to have a go is Paul McCartney, the erstwhile "cute" Beatle and Wings captain, whose quasi-autobiographical Liverpool Oratorio is soaring on the classical charts (Angel/EMI Classics has shipped 350,000 copies of the two-CD album worldwide). Commissioned for the 150th anniversary of the Royal Liverpool...
Shanty's wedding music stands out as a luminous love song, but overall the oratorio is rambling and generic; there is nothing to match the economy and effect of such "classical" McCartney tunes as Eleanor Rigby and Yesterday, and you certainly can't dance to it. Indeed, the piece emerges...
The juiciest comparisons, however, came in Christopher Brown's illuminating article on classical views of homosexuality. Aristotle, Brown wrote, provided "the most interesting ancient discussion of homosexual behavior." This discussion included analogies between homosexuality and cannibalism, incest, eating earth, autophagy and "compulsively plucking out one's hair." From this discussion...