Word: quintets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After much fingering, it is courteously returned to Subject Ma. After this a quintet of F.F.s take a stroll through Wusih's back streets. They are immediately surrounded by laughing, chattering locals, many descending from homeward-bound bicycles. "Ni hao! Ni hao!" (How do you do?) Congeniality on such a scale can be slightly frightening, but it is authentic and spontaneous. Back in the hermetic bus on the way to the railroad station, Richard Lloyd Jones, president of the Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune, mops his brow and remarks: "This is how F.D.R. must have felt riding down Pennsylvania Avenue...
Schubert: String Quintet in C major (Melos Quartet, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich; Deutsche Grammophon). This is a near-perfect recording of Schubert's greatest chamber work. The playing and the balance between instruments are all but flaw less; Rostropovich's singing bass line is outstanding, and the gay third movement scherzo is joyous as a Highland fling...
Works by Michael Haydn, Poulenc, Beethoven, and Francaix--Boston Symphony Orchestra Woodwind Quintet performs at B.U. School for the Arts, 855 Comm. Ave., Boston at 8 p.m. Tickets $1 at door. Call...
Also on the B.U. calendar, the Boston Symphony Orchestra Woodwind Quintet plays works by Michael Haydn, Poulenc, Beethoven and Francaix on Monday at 8 at B.U. School for the Arts, 855 Comm. Ave., but you might find a faculty recital of works for piano four-hands by Schubert, Hindemith, Mozart, Dvorak and Schumann even more intriguing. Warren Wilson and Shann Jacobsen-Wood will be the performers on Wednesday at 8, also at B.U. School for the Arts...
Contemporary Music for Woodwind--Emmanuel Woodwind Quintet performs at Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley College, at 12:40 p.m. Free...