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...cancel it. "A number of directors who are involved with big corporations in town felt queasy," says board chairman Paul Rogers. Ultimately the board decided that dropping the show would contravene the troupe's commitment to new plays (its season has also included a world premiere of Fragments -- A Concerto Grosso by Edward Albee, now running in New York City, and The Rights by Lee Blessing, now in Marietta, Georgia). Artistic director White offered one concession: no one under 18 would be admitted. White's position was bolstered by a donation of more than $6,000 from local gay businessmen...
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave., Boston. 266-1200, Performs Gabrieli's "Canzona per sonare," Harbison's Cello Concerto and Brahms Double Concertto. With Josef Suk, violin and Yo-Yo Ma, cello. April 7 at 8 p.m. April 8 at 1:30 p.m.; April 9 at 8 p.m. and April...
...fluently that an interlocutor would never know she cannot hear. In performance she watches the conductor and orchestra with a fierce intensity, picking up visual cues and bounding from instrument to instrument with the grace of a natural athlete. She often gets a workout: Dominic Muldowney's astringent Concerto for Percussion, subtitled Figure in a Landscape, which she performed with the Cincinnati Symphony late last month, employs cymbals, marimba, Japanese bells, a pair of bongos, two congas, a vibraphone, four small drums, four wood blocks and several boobams, which are tuned cylindrical tubes open on one end and covered...
...setting out as a soloist instead of a rank-and-file orchestral player. Plenty of people make a living playing the piano, violin, flute or cello. But how many live off their skill with the snare drum, the marimba, the xylophone? Beethoven, after all, never wrote a percussion concerto...
...course, popular in the Michael Jackson sense; you won't see the Concerto Grosso No. 4 turning up on MTV. But no living composer of so-called serious music exerts so much hold on the imagination and loyalty of his interpreters as does the reclusive Schnittke, 59. Performers from the old East bloc such as violinist Gidon Kremer, a fellow Soviet emigre, cellist-conductor Mstislav Rostropovich and conductor Kurt Masur have been championing his works for years. Now, it seems, the rest of the world is catching...