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Blodgett Chamber Music Series. The Mendelssohn String Quartet, Blodgett Artists in Residence, perform Mozart's String Quartet in D Major, K. 499, the world premiere of Augusta Read Thomas' String Quartet, and Brahms's Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34. Paine Hall, 8 p.m. Free...
...Dead White Male. Which is why the Bay Area-based WOMEN'S PHILHARMONIC, an all-female ensemble conducted by Jo Ann Falletta, is important in our collective consciousness-raising. On an eponymous new CD (Koch Classics), the group unearths a splendid Overture by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (Felix's sister). But the real pleasures are in the Concertino for Harp and Orchestra by Germaine Tailleferre, perhaps the least known of Les Six, and in two pieces by Lili Boulanger, Nadia's sister. Boulanger's D'un Soir Triste, 12 minutes of heartbreaking pathos, ought to be in every man's repertoire...
Bach Society Orchestra. Works by Mendelssohn, Shostakovitch and Tchaikowsky. Cellist Andres Diaz winner of the 1986 Naumberg International Cello Competition, will perform. Paine Hall, 8 p.m. $10 for general admission; $6 for students. Tickets are available at the Holyoke Center Ticket Office and at the door. The Concert. Featuring the RadcliffePitches, the Yale Whiffenpoofs and the HarvardKrokodiloes. Sanders Theatre, 8 p.m. $10/$12 forgeneral admission; $5/$7 for students. Tickets areavailable at the Sanders Theatre box office andthe Holyoke Center Ticket Office...
Boston Conservatory Orchestra. PerformMozart's Violin Concerto No. 4, Stravinsky'sDanses Concertantes, Mozart's Symphony No. 40,and Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture on Friday,Oct. 9 at 8 p.m. Seully Hall, 8 The Fenway,Boston. Free. Call 536-6340 for more information...
Truman lived in Independence from age 6 to 21, the formative years. His circle was made up of well-to-do youngsters, and his intellectual companions in a superb high school were Mark Twain, Dickens, Plutarch, Tennyson and Shakespeare. He studied Chopin, Mendelssohn and Paderewski on the piano. His heroes included Cincinnatus, Scipio and Cyrus II the Great. He never played football, basketball or baseball. You might even say that in his place and time he was elitist...