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Showing her witty fashion sense, local flautist Paula Robison modelled a sassy red sequined gown and offered the delicious post-modern program of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" she had transcribed for flute. Robison enchanted a predominantly upper-crust Back Bay audience on Sunday at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum with her effervescent and joyful presence...
Faithful to what she describes as her philosophy of "fusion-style," Ms. Robison dared to couple Vivaldi's florid 1725 orchestration with booming, modern instruments and techniques. She described many contemporary instrumentalists as drooling over and fantasizing about playing early pieces by the likes of Vivaldi, Bach and Haydn, yet often restraining themselves from such performances out of (often sanctimonious) respect for "authenticity." A musician in the most untarnished sense, Ms. Robison aims to paint the liveliest and most colorful musical experience possible with as many wideranging techniques available, seemingly saying, "Oh phooey" to purist stalwarts. In a mildly Machiavellian...
According to Richard Robison, director of community relations at the DMR, this support has taken the form of helping those tested get medical examinations and providing documentation of the experiments...
...meantime, the department has been working with the attorney general's office to mediate an appropriate response to attorneys [representing the former test subjects]," Robison said yesterday...
More than 2000 minority business school students benefited from King's work with COGME, Robison Professor of Business Administration James A. Cash Jr. said last night...