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Shear Madness. Indefinite run. This audience-participant whodunit is about the murderer of a classical pianist who lived over the unisex hair salon where the show is set. Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton St., Boston. Call 426-5225 for tickets and more information...
...exactly silence. During the course of 4'33", which Cage composed (conceived?) in 1952, the pianist sits quietly at the keyboard, but nature -- in the form of coughs, whispers, rustles, the 60-cycle hum of electric lights and the rush of traffic outside the concert hall -- provides the sonic material. "When I was setting out to devote my life to music," Cage wrote in 1974, "people distinguished between musical sounds and noises. I . . . fought for noises." So defined, Cage found "music" everywhere: in the kitchen, in technology (HPSCHD, a seminal electronic collaboration with composer Lejaren Hiller), in numerology and, most...
Cabot House Music Society. Pianist Hiroko Kunitake performs works by Bach, Beethoven, Debussy and Chopin. Cabot House, 5:30 p.m. Free...
Though the lyrical opening of the second movement was plagued problems similar to those of the first movement, the pianist, Mihae Lee, heretofore invisible in following Chase, effectively initiated and propelled the exchange between violin and piano as the movement climaxes; this instance of rhythmic alternation, the piano asserting one chord and the violin rebutting with another...
Mather House. "The Other Half Speaks," a concert of keyboard music by women composers of the last three centuries. Pianist Elain Greenfield performs works by Clara Schumann, Marianne von Martinez, Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, Amy Marcy Beach and Grazyna Baceqicz. Mather House, Senior Common Room, 3:30 p.m. Free...