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...NEC Percussion Ensemble plays Davidovsky, Stout, Varese, Schubert and Gauger. At Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Ave., Boston, at 8 p.m. Call...
...have wondered how Mozart would react to Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, or even Fleetwood Mac. Maybe they're both the same question. In any event, the first question is the one which Larry Livingston, music director of the New England Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, will address Tuesday night in the NEC's first "Music After Five" program of the season. Livingston's lecture and demonstration is one of half-a-dozen mostly free classical events this week at the Conservatory, 290 Huntington Ave., Boston, ranging from contemporary American to Bach...
Livingston, who comes to the NEC from the University of N. Illinois, will hold his talk in the NEC's Brown Hall at 6 p.m., and will attempt to discuss "how a young Mozart might approach music today and what he might write." The evening should be interesting and controversial, especially bearing in mind the composer to be discussed. It should also be expensive--$8 a person--but go anyway, particularly if you're intrigued by the new currents in musical composition...
...Conservatory's other attractions are less expensive--they're free--and are also pleasant concerts of appealing and interesting works. The NEC Conservatory Repertory Orchestra performs Berlioz's Overture to "Beatrice and Benedict," Debussy's "Iberia," and Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony" on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Jordan Hall, Boston. Don't miss that. Composer-flutist John Heiss is presenting a recital of contemporary American works on Monday--same time, same place. "A Musical Offering by J. S. Bach," at King's Chapel, Sunday at 5 p.m., features performances on original instruments at baroque pitch with early tunings. Again...
Opera theater at New England Conservatory presents Turn of the Screw, based on the novelette by Henry James. Accompanied by the NEC opera orchestra. Also running Friday through Sunday. Jordan Hall, Boston...