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...really hard-core folkies might want to check out "In Praise of Folly," a satiric revue of English music written in the 16th century by Erasmus of Rotterdam. The Greenwood Consort, a six-member group of lute, tenor viol, recorder, krummerhorn and Flemish harp players, performs the revue Saturday at 8:30 p.m. at the Longy School, 1 Follyn St. in Cambridge. Tickets are $3.50 at the door $2 for students...
...musical modes to represent the different levels and intensities of action. The most striking distinctions are between the music moving the spirits and that moving the mere mortals. All different kinds of musical textures and harmonies distinguish the two groups. The fairies are musically represented by instruments like the harp, harpsichord, and celesta; and percussion that frequently goes off at melodic and rhythmic tangents as unexpected as are Puck's entrances and exits. The humans' movements are heralded by woodwind and strings that stay comparatively close to the everyday world. Occasional discords throw into relief the eeriness of the fairy...
Classical and baroque harp and harpsichord music will help to create the planned relaxed atmosphere, Paul Lolax, the Voyagers' carpenter and soon-to-be maitre d', said yesterday...
...parts where the score calls for playing which is meant to be more lyrical than majestic, the group soundedvery fine. The soft chimes of the triangle in "Tuileries" played nicely against the winds, harp, horns and strings, and the tuba burst forth with round tones most of the time in the sad "Bydlo" describing a cart driver trudging along with his oxen. "Ballet of the Hatching Chicks" fared better than "Limoges" and "Catacombae," in which the brass were not as sharp as required...
Angell eschews, with unjustifiable modesty, comparison with the métier's creator, whom he salutes in a touching envoi: "Farewell, upstate harp of Tamil Vale, Frank, sweet bird of Saratoga . . ." New Yorker Editor William Shawn, however, is pleased. "If Frank Sullivan knew about it, he would be pleased too," says Shawn. Or as Angell concludes, and Sullivan would have: "Peace on each land beneath the sun/ Good friends, God bless us, every...