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Cabot House Music Society. Pianist David Witten, soprano Catherine Thorpe and pianists Elizabeth Skavish and Kathryn Rosenbach perform works by Liszt, Busoni and Ponze. Cabot House, 5:30 p.m. Free...
Harvard University Art Museums Fall Concerts. Pianist Noel Lee performs works of Copland, Carter, Cage and Lee, in connection with the exhibition Mark Rothko's Harvard Murals. Fogg ART Museum...
...BOTTOM LINE: A novel about a pianist's rise to glory is long on sentiment but never quite manages to score...
...composers do not come trippingly to mind. This dearth may have something to do with the ineffable nature of music. It is a language of pure sound that stubbornly resists translation. Descriptions may register in the mind, but they invariably miss the ears. Or, as Claude Rawlings, the pianist-hero of Frank Conroy's Body & Soul, puts it, when asked to explain the nature of his genius: "The higher you get, the harder it is to put into words, actually. Eventually it gets pretty mysterious...
...immigrant ladies, who meet for mah-jongg and call themselves the Joy Luck Club, have four American- born girls, now in their 30s. While the daughters follow the quiet ambition fed them at birth -- to be unostentatiously extraordinary -- the mothers fret and fuss. You're not a good enough pianist; you're too proud about your gift for playing chess. "I'd rather get rectal cancer" than have you marry that Caucasian. And look at the top bedroom in this pricey home he built for you: "A million dollars, and the walls are still crooked." (In fact, the guys...