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Does classical music have to be performed in a concert hall? Chances are that virtually all the concerts one hears at Harvard and in Boston are given either in an imposing recital hall or, if at the University, in a lavish House common room. It may be that surroundings such as Symphony Hall, Sanders Theatre or a Quad living room impart a definite charm and sense of dignity to the music itself. But now, Boston University School of Music has come up with two series which forsake the usual for very different and provocative settings...
...rest of the concerts this week take place in more conventional settings. The Radcliffe Choral Society will perform its fall concert, "Motets, Songs and Graffiti" on Friday at 8 p.m. at Paine Hall, Music Building. Tickets are $1.50 with student ID, and are available at Holyoke Ticket Office or at the door. Oktoberfest 1500 is a festival of "German Song at the Court of Maximillian" performed by the Greenwood Consort with guest tenor Frank Hoffneister. Oktoberfest is offered today at Newton Arts Center, 61 Washington Park, Newtonville, at 8:30 p.m.; on Saturday, at Longy School of Music, 1 Follen...
...Tapestry Hall, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, at 3:30 pm on Sunday. The performance is free and details are available at 267-9300, ext. 340. At Berklee Recital Hall, 1140 Boyleston Street, Boston, Marla Prince leads a vocal ensemble tonight at 7:30 pm. Info about the free concert is at 266-1400. Also, at the University, sopranos Marguerite Coughlin and Sabra Loomis and pianist Alvin Novak perform works of Liszt, Wolf, Schumann and Berg. The free concert is at Adams House Lower Common Room...
Ship docks on Shanghai's Whang-poo River. Busy first day sightseeing. Second day, to Peking for manic 14-hour slog that takes in Great Wall, Forbidden City, sumptuous banquet. Third, more Shanghai. Shopping, sights and concert. Fourth, to Wusih and on to Soochow for the night and another crammed rubbernecking day. Sixth, Shanghai. Seventh, sail for Canton. Eighth, ninth and tenth days at sea: slide shows, lectures, no chopsticks. Eleventh, arrive Canton. Temples, museums, other sights. Twelfth, by plane to beautiful Kweilin, two days. Fourteenth, back to Canton: another temple, shopping, concert. Fifteenth day, to Foshan for temples...
...commemorate the 50th anniversary of its composer's death and the 125th of his birth, Brno has opened a yearlong Janacek celebration, beginning with 27 musical events in a two-week-long gala festival. Students, soldiers and scores of foreign scholars jammed six concert halls for the performances, including fully staged productions of all nine Janáček operas. Workmen bawled the great man's songs in local bars. Interpreters translated learned musical discourse in three languages (Czech, German and Russian). "If the old man ever scribbled graffiti on walls, we will probably hear that too," said...