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Mather House. Kammerton, featuringbaroque flutist Na'ama Lion, baroque violinistGuiomar Turgeon, baroque cellist Annika Pflugerand harpsichordist Todd Beckham, offers a programof baroque music from England. Master's Residence,3 p.m. Free...
Bach Society Orchestra. Will perform Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with violinist Melinda Hakim '97, flutist Isabel Gill '97 and keyboardist Mary Farbood '97; the East Coast premiere of John Harbison's 1991 Oboe Concerto, with oboist Daniel P. Kim '97; and Mahler's Kindertotenlider with mezzo-soprano Mary Westbrook-Geha. $7/$5 for students.Sanders Theatre, 8 p.m. Tickets are available atthe Holyoke Center Ticket Office and the SandersTheatre Box Office...
...before each piece. The New York musicians also open up the stage to local schoolchildren, encouraging them to try out the instruments, as do players in Baltimore and elsewhere. "It is wonderful to interact with the kids and to see my colleagues do something from the heart," says Baltimore flutist Mark Sparks, the main force behind his orchestra's program. And if minority audiences will not come to the symphony, the symphony will go to + them. The Los Angeles Philharmonic offers free concerts in inner-city neighborhoods and, in the wake of the 1992 riots, gave a special free performance...
...final selection of the evening was Fanatical Dances by Andrew Rindfleisch. The piece is written for piano, violin, cello, clarinet, flute and much percussion. The beginning of the piece features everyone except the flutist playing some kind of percussion--the cellist plays the back of the cello...
...texture and timbre of the piece are complex, exuberant and expressive. The clarinetist and flutist alternate between different clarinets and flutes, two percussionists play a wide range of instruments and the violinist and cellist play at times with their bows upside down. Wild, chaotic sections contrast with tame sections. The piece ends with a fitting explosion of sound which fades into silence...