Word: concert
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...faithful FM readers who journeyed to the Tsongas Arena last night only to discover that the Tori Amos concert you had traveled so far to see had happened the night before, this listing's for you. Before you can write a depressing, angst-ridden song about missing your chance to see your idol perform, Tori will take the stage tonight for real this time--we swear. 8 p.m., Whittermore Center Arena, University of New Hampshire, 128 Main St., Durham, NH. 603-868-7300. Tickets $26.50, students...
...football field tomorrow, the Harvard and Yale Glee clubs will be suiting up in their tuxedoes and fighting for the better tone quality and blend. Those choir boys can get vicious. Be there to see if a fight breaks out over the harmony at The Harvard-Yale Football Concert. 8 p.m., Sanders Theatre, 496-2222. Tickets $8/$6 for students, $14/$10 general...
...veklempt. I'll give you a topic. Sweet Honey in the Rock is neither a food product nor a rock band. Discuss. Actually, its an all-female African American quintet that performs music with black church roots, like spirituals, hymns, gospel, jazz and blues. Check out their 25th Anniversary Concert Tour tonight. 8 p.m., Symphony Hall, 301 Mass. Ave., Boston, 266-1200. Tickets...
Hamelin is a throwback to golden age piano virtuosos--wizards like Ignaz Friedman, Josef Hofmann and Leopold Godowsky--whose keyboard pyrotechnics lit up concert halls during the first 40 years of this century. He is fascinated by the piano's expressive range, its ability to produce almost orchestral varieties of sounds and colors, seemingly bound only by the performer's own limitations. These varied works--by Rachmaninoff, Alkan, Busoni, Godowsky and others--are wickedly difficult, yet Hamelin plays them, often at dazzling speeds, with color, power, a long line and unfailing elan. He also performs three of his own witty...
...discussion of life in the universe. He says that if "God creates you and randomly sends you...to live on some planet...a longer-living civilization has a higher chance of receiving you than one that has existed for a short time," and uses this observation, in concert with the fact that we all happen to have been "received" by Earth, to conclude that, "It is very likely that, as galactic civilizations go, we are on the above-average development level, and possibly way up there among the most advanced." But even using Aczel's own logic, we have...