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...Busch-Reisinger garden concerts next week daily from 1-2 p.m. will be Rameau's Platee; Mozart's Symphony no. 35 ("Haffner"); Schuman's Waldscenen, Respighi's Doric String Quartet and Trittico Botticelliano (last three works related to art); Handel's Water Music; and Brahm's Sextet...
...explanation lies in the fact that, like the composer Rameau, Pirandello first turned to the stage at the age of 50, and there wrought his finest work. He had begun as a poet, and then gained renown as a novelist. So he had plenty of writing experience when he decided the theatre was his true metier...
...Museum presents in its garden daily recorded music concerts, 1-2 p.m. Next week: Gluck's Orfeo, Milhaud's Sketches for Woodwinds (after Wateau), Duke's Surrealist Suite, MacDowell's Woodland Sketches (the last three works are related to art), Mozart's piano Concertos no. 21 and 27, and Rameau's Les indes galantes...
...Louis XV. Harvard President Nathan Pusey turned up, sedate in white tie and tails. Of the 60 guests, 40 were in 18th century costume, and their names made a roll call of Boston's social top drawer. Occasion: a performance of selections from French Composer Jean-Philippe Rameau's comic ballet Platée (1745), with French Tenor Michel Sénéchal in his U.S. debut. Place: the 60-seat, century-old Varieties Theater in the Brookline mansion of Boston Socialite Mrs. George Shattuck, one of the few surviving private stages...
...Varieties as Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals, but was so disturbed by the closeness of the audience that she never returned. Rarely used in recent years, the little theater, with its gilt chairs, roll-down curtain (a Nile landscape) and flaming torches, seemed an ideal setting for Rameau's wispily amusing farce about an old-maidish nymph in frantic pursuit of Jupiter's favors...