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Boston Artists' Ensemble--perfroms piano trios by Beethoven, Dvorak, and Fritz Kreisler. Chapel Gallery of the Second Church, 60 Highland St., Newton. Friday, Feb. 21, 8 p.m. $12; $10 for students and seniors...
...their way 600 miles down the Malayan peninsula. All through the night of Jan. 31, British troops marched out of Malaya and across the 1,100- ft.-long causeway to the island fortress of Singapore. The last 90 to leave were Argyll Scots marching to their bagpipers skirling Hielan' ((Highland)) Laddie. The British then blew a 70-ft. gap in the causeway -- but the inrushing waters proved to be only 4 ft. deep at low tide...
Gone are the vast Highland forests of Scotland. Gone are the oceans of grass that graced the North American plains. Gone too are the lush Bahamian jungles that greeted Christopher Columbus and his sea-weary men. Today these lost landscapes, like vanished civilizations, exist only as mirages that dance in the mind's eye. And until recently, any notion that such priceless heirlooms might be reclaimed would have been dismissed as hopelessly quixotic...
...island nation of Papua New Guinea, in the Coral Sea, jobless people returning to highland villages from the cities often lack the most rudimentary knowledge necessary to survive, such as which rot-resistant trees to use to build huts or which poisonous woods to avoid when making fires for cooking. Many of the youths, alienated from their villages by schooling and exposure to the West, become marauding "rascals," who have made Papua New Guinea's cities among the most dangerous in the world...
PERCUSSION FOUR. Gwen Verdon restages a hit number from Dancin', the Broadway delight by her late husband Bob Fosse, for Chicago's esteemed Hubbard Street Dance Company this week at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park...