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...opening Overture from "The Marriage of Figaro" was brilliant. The piece is supposed to be exceptionally quick, and Baker certainly conducted it that way. But the orchestra was capable not only of playing up to tempo but playing smoothly up to tempo. It's just a shame that the highlight of the concert came so soon...
KRESGE AUDITORIUM (MIT). MIT Symphony Orchestra. Mozart: Figaro overture; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Yasuo Watanabe, soloist); Sibelius: Symphony No. 2. Tickets: $1. Saturday, November...
SANDERS THEATER. Bach Society Orchestra. All-Mozart program: Figaro overture, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Symphony No. 35, Oboe Concerto in C (Stephen Hammer, soloist). Tickets: $.95. Saturday, November 17, Midnight...
...into Santiago, carrying with them salamis, hams, chocolate and liquor. How easy a time they will have is uncertain. The junta hardly seems hospitable to the press, foreign or domestic. Even after censorship was lifted, three journalists, Marlise Simons from the Washington Post, Georges Dupoy from Le Figaro and Pierre Kalfon of Le Monde, were arrested for stories they had written. They were later released. And, of the nine Chilean papers published before the coup, only three were permitted to appear last week...
...Balenciaga-trained Ramon Esparza-ironically fell flat. Though WWD Publisher John Fairchild found the collection "young and different," it was all but hooted out of Paris by local authorities. "An incredible pell-mell of belted raglans, monkey-trimmed redingotes, hippy waistcoats, red rainproofs and dollie-see-through dresses," Le Figaro concluded unbelievingly. "They look like bad copies of good originals...