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...expensive--they're free--and are also pleasant concerts of appealing and interesting works. The NEC Conservatory Repertory Orchestra performs Berlioz's Overture to "Beatrice and Benedict," Debussy's "Iberia," and Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony" on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Jordan Hall, Boston. Don't miss that. Composer-flutist John Heiss is presenting a recital of contemporary American works on Monday--same time, same place. "A Musical Offering by J. S. Bach," at King's Chapel, Sunday at 5 p.m., features performances on original instruments at baroque pitch with early tunings. Again in Jordan Hall, the NEC Faculty Chamber...
...occasion, his friend and fellow Russian, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, helped to organize a gala concert in Nice, not far from Chagall's hillside home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Among the other performers who played or sang in his honor: Violinist Isaac Stern, Baritone Hermann Prey and Flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal. Chagall attended the concert as well as a nearby exhibition of his biblical paintings of the past decade. Said he: "To work with love in his heart is a painter's mission, to make the world better." Besides his artwork Chagall is also dictating the second volume...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's final performance of the season features Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Piston's Flute Concerto, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. With James Yannatos, conductor and violinst, Doriot A Dwyer, flutist, and Luise Vosgerchian, pianist. Sanders Theater. 8:30 pm. $2, $1.50 for students and senior citizens. For info...
Doriot Anthony Dwyer, principal flutist with the Boston Sumphony Orchestra, was the only female principal player in any major U.S. orchestra when she was awarded the position twenty-five years ago. This weekend, Dwyer travels across the River from her home-away-from-home concert hall to solo in two large works presented in Friday night's Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra concert. The first work, a Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, was written for her by the late Walter Piston. Dwyer premiered the unrecorded work in 1972 with the BSO under Michael Tilson Thomas...
...program proves that the animation technique need not impose any stylistic formula on the animator. The mood and subject of these short essays range from the melancholy romanticism of Raoul Servais's Sirene, a tale of love between a mermaid and a flutist after a holocaust, to the wry wit of Kick Me by Robert Swarthe in which the protagonist is a pair of headless legs...