Word: henriksen
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...leopard attack; a baby gorilla is killed by the same leopard, Sabor; the grieving gorilla mother Kala (voiced by Glenn Close) discovers the humans' corpses and their living child; she saves the child from Sabor and decides to rear the human as her own; Kala's mate Kerchak (Lance Henriksen) gruffly, suspiciously accedes to her wish. All this--basically, the start of Robinson Crusoe and the Moses story--is told in a few minutes, with the deftest narrative brushstrokes...
OLAF CHRIS HENRIKSEN, LUTE...
What kind of person plays the lute? Olav Chris Henriksen is a tall, bespectacled man with a courageous moustache and a demure goatee. Mr. Henriksen is a member of the faculty at the Boston Conservatory, and some of his performances include Tangelwood, the Boston Early Music Festivals and the Soirees Musicales du Chateau of de Versailles. He has also made a concert tour of his native Norway, sponsored by the Norwegian government. It is perhaps unjustly comical to watch him curl his long body in its grey suit and blue tie around the ancient frame of the lute. His sits...
During each of his pauses for applause, Mr. Henriksen gave some history of the next composer's work, outlining as he proceeded chronologically from the Renaissance to the Baroque some of the changes and experiments in lute technique and tunings. Just as the physical structure of the lute was never static, lute music during the "grand" century was in a constant state of experimentation...
...programme consisted of works by nine different French lutenists from about 1540 to 1700, including the great innovators Ennemond and Denis Gaultier. Mr. Henriksen played two or three pieces by each composer. At the end of each of these little sets he stood up, and moving out next to his music stand, placed one foot in front on the other solemnly bowing over his lute several times. I got the impression that Mr. Henriksen didn't mind our applause at all, and at the end of the concert it took very little persuading to get him to play an encore...