Word: musica
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...name really fast, and people will think you're talking about Austin Powers. The Harvard University Art Museum proudly presents "The Annual E. Power Biggs Memorial Bach Recital," with Werner Jakob, founder and artistic director of Nuremberg's Musica Sacra Festival. Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland St. 495-4544. 3 p.m. $8 students...
This Saturday, Harvard Square will host a mini-festival of arts-related demonstrations, performances, and workshops, all presented under the aegis of "Contemporary Arts Day," a joint project of the American Repertory Theatre, the Institute for Contemporary. Boston Musica Viva and Dance Umbrella. These are the cream of local arts institutions, and between them they cover virtually every medium, so there should be something to please every taste...
...became as famous for performing the works of these composers as for his own music. Upon graduating from Harvard, Rzewski spent two years at Princeton before going to Europe on Fulbright and Ford Foundation grants to study with Luigi Dallapiccola and Elliott Carter. In Rome, he helped to found Musica Elettronica Viva, a group dedicated to live and improvised electronic music...
...Boston Musica Viva. Start of its 24th season. Edward Pickman Hall, 27 Garden St., Cambridge. Friday, Oct. 2. Call 353-0556 for more information...
...fell to Domenech, a man obsessed with the history of Catalunya, to % design what may be the most extreme Art Nouveau building in Europe. This is the Palau de la Musica Catalana (1905-08). It was built for the Orfeo Catala, a choral-music society. Pablo Casals and Montserrat Caballe, both Catalans, began their careers here. From the mosaic-sheathed ticket office to the stupendous inverted bell of a stained-glass skylight in the auditorium, from the sculpted Valkyries riding across the proscenium arch to the encrustations of ceramic roses (each the size of a cabbage) on the ceiling...