Word: harpsichords
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...Baroque harpsichord concert--Mercedes Olivera plays Bach, Scarlatti, Rameau and others. At North House...
Moving back in time again, the Boston University School for the Arts presents a Faculty Recital with harpsichord works by Bach, Sarlatti and Rameau. The concert is on Friday, January 20, at 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. Call 353-3345 for more information. The School also presents concert of "Music of the 20th Century" on January 31, with works of Bernstein, Babitt and others...
...Museum of Fine Arts presents the second in its series of harpsichord lectures on Tuesday. The subject will be Virginals by Johannes Ruckers, Antwerp 1620. John Gibbons, harpsichordist to the Musical Instruments Collection of the MFA, is the lecturer. Call 267-9300, ext. 340, for more information...
...Museum of Fine Arts is also "going baroque" this week with "Gallery Gig." Robert Hill plays the 1756 Parisian Hemsch harpsichord, which is part of the MFA Musical Instruments Collection. Hill will play music of Rameau, Forquerary and Balbastre. The Gallery Gig is on Tuesday 7 p.m., in Gallery 2D16. It's free...
...three dance movements that followed were less satisfactory. There was still vigor and clarity (the lacy harpsichord was an especially fine touch), but Wilkins never permitted the orchestra to flaunt the music's bravura potential. Unfortunately, his thoughtful, courteous reading blunted the brilliance, the hard edges, of a work which should above all be diamond-hard and sparkling...