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...artistically starved audience, looking at the operatic stage not as an expression of contemporary life, but as a musical museum, where singers execute historical documents, with technical accuracy and precision but little sincerity. Today the opera houses of the world abound with what Toscanini called "musica inutile"--useless music, music that flirts with our emotional sensibilities rather than attacking them...
Tonight through Sunday, $3.50 gets you past the Passim (492-7679) bouncer see Mary McCaslin and Jim Ringer, both quiet folkies. Tuesday and Wednesday Musica Orbis play an unusual fusion of classical, folk and rock, admission is $3. (Don't forget the live concerts on WCAS Sunday afternoon...
...Luke's Episcopal Church. Musica Humana presents a program of Renaissance music at 3:30 p.m. at 7 St. Luke's Rd., Brighton. Free. Information...
...Boston Musica Viva--2 pm--Jordan Hall, Boston--Richard Pittman conducts program of works by American composers...
...Musica Orbis--8:30 pm--Sanders Theater--it's pretty hard to describe, but 5 people play a bunch of instruments. Tickets...