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Opera Company of Boston, directed by Sarah Caldwell, holds the American stage premiere of Glinka's Russian Folk opera, "Russlan and Ludmilla." Sung in English and performed by Victor Braun, Giorgio Tozzi and Jeannette Scovotti. Orpheum Theatre, Boston. For info...
Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, conducted by James Yannatos, performs Mussorgsky: "Pictures at an Exhibition," Britten: "Suite on English Folk Tunes" and Gershwin Piano Concerto in F (with soloist John Melnyk, winner of the 1976-77 HRO Concerto Competition). Sanders Theatre. 8:30 p.m. Tickets at $2, 1.50 for senior citizens or with students ID. For info...
...hours after the Winthrop concert begins, the Kuumba Singers of the Afro-American Cultural Center will perform in the Lowell House dining hall. (That's Saturday, March 12 at 8:30 pm for those of you without slide rules or pocket calculators.) Count on richly-textured choral and African folk music; $1 donation requested...
...Duser is easily the best guitarist in the Northeast," Dave Sidman, chairman of the Winthrop House Folk and Jazz Society, the concert sponsors, said yesterday. (Of course, I am told Sidman is given to statements like "Massachusetts is easily the best state in the Union," and "One is easily the loneliest number there could ever be.") But this time he could be right. Berkeleetrained Van Duser specializes in finger-picking--bluegrass, jazz, classical, and an incredible version of "Stars and Stripes Forever" in which he simultaneously plays bass, melody, and piccolo parts. Novick, who played with David Bromberg...
...Mass Ave," in which case go there, or "I dunno," in which case ask someone else. Either way, for $2 you can find out about the Joy of Wendy Grossman, Lisa Null, Bill Shute and Donna DeChristopher in concert, about which I know nothing. But the poster says "Folk Music," and who am I to argue with the media...