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Blending Southern rock and soulful blues, this absorbing debut album by South Carolina quartet Hootie & the Blowfish has become an unexpected commercial smash, selling more than a million copies. It features the catchy, sing-along number "Hold My Hand," which has landed in Billboard's Top 10. "Hootie's music may be deeply personal, but it's not wimpy," says TIME pop music critic Christopher John Farley. "The band's sound is big and guitar stuffed, and lead singer Darius Rucker's voice is always bluesy and confident...
This incredible development was most manifest in the last piece on the program, Hugo Wolf's "Italian Serenade." Wolf originally composed the one-movement "Serenade" for string quartet and planned further movements; he later adapted it for string orchestra. The piece has since become a frequent encore, as Yoo pointed out in a few words before the performance...
Regatta Bar. The Charles Hotel, One Bennett Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge. 876-7777. The McCoy Tyner/Bobby Hutcherson Quartet on Thursday, Feb. 16 through Saturday, February 18. The Friends on Dr. Burney with Jayne West and David Ripley on Sunday, Feb. 19 at 3 and 7 p.m. The Jacky Terrasson Trio on Tuesday, Feb. 21 and Wednesday...
...This quartet stands a good chance to prevail and bring excitement back to the ballet world. After the dreary years, these women are needed. Why has ballet had troubles recently? Martins points to the loss of Balanchine, ballet's presiding genius, and of such grand figures as Lucia Chase, who ran American Ballet Theatre for 35 years. Further, he notes that some of the mystery went out of the art with the breakup of the Soviet Union-no more defectors with their fathomless melancholy, struggling for a free artistic life...
...Linnaean String Quartet, a group of four musicians from the class of 1995, followed Brown's address with their performance of "Anthem," a movement of a piece composed by Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies. Elkies based the movement on James Weldon Johnson's "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing...