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...occasionally by bells or the shiver of tambourines. The singers spin out long, pure lines, immaculate in pitch and virtually free of vibrato. There are intricate madrigals, courtly love ballads, ribald drinking songs, solemn liturgical anthems, sprightly dances. Between numbers, Director Michael Jaffee, 41, may look up from his lute and chat engagingly to the audience about the music. The whole effect is blessedly unfussy, with none of the chilly fastidiousness of those early music groups that bear their authenticity like a penance...
Bill Roberts was promoted from a non-descript Lord to the pivotal part of Feste. He sings well indeed, although-unlike Mark Lamos last year--he has to fake his lute-playing. Ellen Tobie is a little less skillful than Lynn Redgrave as the disguised Viola, but Julienne Marie's countess Olivia is a bit more subtle than we had before...
...Sanders Theatre; tickets are at $7, $5, and $3 at the door. Call 247-1465. Finally, Robert and Catherine Strizich and Sandra Hammond play works of Foscarini, de Visee and Goultier in Gallery Gig at the Museum of Fine Arts (Gallery II-51). The lute, guitar and dance festivities begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday and the concert is free...
Gallery Gig--Lute and guitar works of Goultier, Foscarini and de Visee performed in Gallery 11-51, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, at 7 p.m. Free. Call 267-9300, ext. 340 for details...
...Feste, Charles Levin tries hard but falls short. For one thing, he isn't much of a singel. He and his two assisting musicians (lyre, mandoline and lute) get little help from Richard Cumming's songs, though Cumming has furnished fine instrumental scene-links for horn and woodwind...