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...HAYDN: QUARTETS, OP. 64, NO. 5 ("LARK") AND OP. 76, NO. 2 ("QUINTEN") (Cleveland Quartet; RCA). Two of the most subtle and spirited string quartets-crisply performed-from the pen of the man who virtually invented the form...
Emmanuel Chamber Orchestra--Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St., Boston--8:30 p.m.--Russell Sherman, piano, and Craig Smith and David Hoose, conductors--works of Mozart, Bach, Haydn, Stravinsky. Info...
Eliot House Music Society--Eliot House Library--John Melnyk, piano--8 p.m.--works of Haydn, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt...
Gardner Museum--280 The Fenway, Boston--4 p.m.--Lucienne Davidson, piano--works of Haydn, Debussy. Info...
...face has never been lost. The music is no older than the century, and many of its fathers are still alive and playing. Painting and classical music progress sequentially, discarding earlier styles and forms in pursuit of the new (nobody, for example, paints like Giotto today, or composes like Haydn), but jazz continues to flower cumulatively, taking on and transforming the new without ever abandoning the old. It is a fugue with a life of its own, endlessly recapitulating itself. If its vitality dims from time to time under the onslaught of fads or sheer noise, jazz simply sits...