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...most popular Zydeco artist currently is Frank, whose rap- inflected music is rocking Zydeco clubs like Richard's and Slim's Y-Ki-Ki in Opelousas. But a number of even more talented young musicians are fast emerging. Delafose (pronounced De-la-foss), 23, whose late father John was a highly regarded Zydeco performer, is a superb accordionist who sings in both English and French. A quiet man who habitually sports a big, black cowboy hat, Delafose taught himself to play the accordion at age 13. On his first solo album, French Rockin' Boogie, he shows his ability to take...
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave., Boston. 266-1492. Performs Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings, Foss' Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, and Dukas' "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" on Friday, Feb. 17 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 18 at 8 p.m. and Tuesday...
...scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia gave Rorem entry into the company of the other wunderkinder and their mentors who, from the 1940s on, would do much to define what serious American music was all about: Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Virgil Thomson, Marc Blitzstein, Lukas Foss, Samuel Barber, John Cage. Rorem's feelings of admiration, doubt, jealousy and gratefulness for these figures inspire the sharpest sketches in a book crammed with sharp sketches. On two composers who straddled the concert stage and Broadway: "Lenny Bernstein would never have been quite what he was without the firm example...
...liked the animals and the monkey with theorgan grinder," said David Foss of daughterSophie, 5. "And the free snack was very nice...
Griffelkin, inspired by Foss's childhood recollection of a German fairy tale about a little devil who comes to earth to find love and happiness, has been repeatedly composed, decomposed and recomposed over the past 63 years (the composer, 71, wrote a first version when he was eight). It is a modest children's opera whose chief characteristic is its inoffensive, generic amiability...