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...audience from behind the keys, at times conducting them to hum the orchestral parts missing during his performances of old Five songs. But there’s nothing engaging, and certainly nothing to sing along with, on Super D, which only includes three Folds originals. Instead, the ever-innovative pianist tries his hands at addressing the demand for a metal piano arrangement of the Darkness’s “Get Your Hands Off of My Woman,” and, in the album’s only highlight, nails a cover of Ray Charles?...
...trio of Beethoven’s chamber works will be performed including the Kreutzer string quintet. The featured performers are clarinetist Thomas Hill, violinists Ida Levin and Harumi Rhodes, violists Marcus Thompson and Jonathan Vinocour, cellist Ronald Thomas and pianist Mihae Lee. Sanders Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Tickets $46/$37/$26/$17. Harvard Box Office...
Boston’s Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra kicks off the season with a Gala opener featuring pianist Ursula Oppens performing Beethoven’s 4th piano concerto. The program also includes a world premiere work by Amy Williams. Free pre-show aperitif, half-hour of chamber music. Tickets $45/$29/$19/$9; $2 off students and senior citizens; $5 off WGBH members; 2 for 1 Outings and Innings; $9 student rush, day of concert, cash only. Harvard Box Office (617) 496-2222. 3 p.m. Sanders Theatre...
...into Sanders Theatre last night for the Ig Nobel award ceremony—“honoring achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think”—a flurry of paper airplanes soared across the room. One landed between the fingers of a pianist entertaining the growing crowd with the churning of a Romantic sonata. A couple of white-haired men with ponytails in the first few rows cupped their hands around their mouths and goaded on the pianist. Then they picked up an airplane and discussed how to improve its design...
This year’s MacArthur Fellowship winners range widely, from a classical ragtime pianist who discovered a previously unknown Scott Joplin piece, to a mechanical engineer who applied the coordinated movement of biological groups to man-made machines...