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...Boston Camerata, directed by Joel Cohen, will present Cupid Victorius, music of the Italian Renaissance, in Sanders Theatre at 8:30 pm. The concert will include music by Cipriano, Marenzio, Gesualdo and Gestoldi and readings of Italian love poetry by Nicholas Linfield of the Boston Lunchtime Theatre. Tickets are $5 and $3.50 at the Jordan Hall Box Office and at Strawberries II in Cambridge but rush tickets, at the door only, are available for $1.50. For more information call...
Have you ever had a yen for the courtly traditions of elegance in love, etiquette and music? If so the Collegium Iosquinium may have just the thing to soothe your pageant-starved soul. Directed by Harvard lecturer Arthur Loeb, the group will present songs and dances from the Burgundian and French courts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the suitably formal surroundings of the Fogg Art Museum's courtyard. The performance is one of a series of Sunday Afternoon Concerts sponsored by the museum and is free and open to the public...
...soldier, and deBroca's direction is free-wheeling; the film tickles, like a feather. And just think; by concentrating hard enough on the delight of going to a unconventional film like this, you can convince yourself that you're just as filled with bottled-up inspiration and love of life as the charming lunatics in deBroca's fantasy...
...parallels end. The rest of the movie carries him through an idyllic romance with a flower-child of the neighborhood--a courtship full of walks through the fields and accompanied by soupy music, much like the middle third of Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. Just as they consumate their love, however, he recovers his memory. He abandons her for his celibate priesthood and she dies of a broken heart. In the Emile Zola novel on which the film is based, this ending was clearly intended as an anti-clerical attack. Unfortunately, the sentimentality and lack of reality in the film...
Given that Shakespeare's delicate handling of indelicate subjects has burgeoned into blatant indelicacy these days, burlesque has surely become the right accent for romance. Guare and Shapiro's Two Gentlemen of Verona revels in the vulgarity of sex and the naivety of love; it treats the profounder pretensions of lovers and politicians and wealth with sarcasm. It teaches no lessons and believes in happy endings. It declaims old poetry and drives new music hard at you. It requires relaxed yet precise coordination which the production in Harvard Yard, directed by John Bard Manulis, pulls off with only minor hitches...