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Among the piano concerts, Darryl Rosenberg plays Mozart, Ravel and Schumann at Kirkland House Junior Common Room on Friday at 8:30 pm. At the Longy School, Randolph Nichols performs Mozart's Sonata in D Major K. 574, Brahms' Fantasie Pieces Op. 116. Poulenc's &Les Soirees de Nazelles" and Chopin's Ballade in G minor. The recital is on Friday at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $3 at the door; info at 861-0497. At B.U., Maria Clodes plays Bach, Schumann, Schubert and Ravel on Monday evening at 8 p.m. The concert is at 855 Comm. Ave., Boston...
Some other people coming to the Paradise in the not-too-distant future: Les McCann tonight; Devo on the 25th (I've never heard him/them, but I hear he/they are the wave of the future, according to an ex-rock critic of this paper. In any case, they're going to be on "Saturday Night Live" next week, so if he/they haven't made it big before then, "Devo" will certainly be a household word by Sunday morning, along with "noogies.") The aging yet great Joe Cocker will perform feats of contortion deemed physically impossible for the average (straight) human...
...Les McCann--Paradise...
...their debt. Numbers like "Down South Jukin," "Preacher's Daughter" and "Lend a Helpin' Hand" would not have been written if the Rolling Stones and Cream had never recorded. "Comin' Home" owes its existence in part to the early Allman Brothers, the group that Skynyrd always played second Les Paul to until just before the end. And thrown in for filler are two songs by then drummer and vocalist Rickey Medlocke which are so un-Skynyrd-like in their flutey ballad styling that they seem to have snuck onto the record while the producer was out to lunch...
Other random thoughts occur. For example, how come in movies like this a couple of crooks can indulge in a top-speed car chase through downtown Los Ange les for 20 minutes without attracting a single squad car, when you or I get hauled in just for failing to make a left-turn signal? How come Hill insists on making the leading lady (Isabelle Adjani) so enigmatic, so much the dark lady of a thou sand bad screenplays, that the entire audience giggles every time she talks without moving her lips? And, finally, how come the Department of Energy didn...