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...disciples--including his sons Domenico and Lorenzo--are on view at the Pierpont Morgan Library, while the Metropolitan Museum of Art has a show of 80 of his paintings and oil sketches and 33 of his mysterious and brilliantly inventive etchings, the Capricci and the Scherzi di Fantasia...
...tapestry designs in the Prado, and it continues in the late work. The title page of Goya's Caprichos, that famous image of a dreaming man around whose head owls and bats and other monsters of the unconscious are flitting, is clearly derived from the frontispiece to Tiepolo's Scherzi di Fantasia, a gravestone infested with owls. The terrible figure of the red-capped torturer looming behind the mutilated saint in Tiepolo's Martyrdom of Saint Agatha, c. 1755, seems to predict the primal energy of Goya's giants...
Musical Banquet. Bruce Fithian, tenor and Olav Chris Henriksen, lute and theorbo, perform music of 17th-century Europe, including French airs de cour, English lute songs, Italian monodies and scherzi lute and theorbo solos. Sunday, October 3, 3 p.m. Somerville Museum, Central St. and Westwood Road, Somerville. $5 for students. Call 666-9810 for more information...
...Poet," "The Transcriber," "The Virtuoso" -- three apt descriptions for Wild himself. He's a throwback to the Golden Age pianists, exulting in the sensuality of Romanticism and the vertiginous, almost orchestral possibilities of the piano. Two CDs demonstrate his superb musicianship and rare virtuosity: Chopin: 4 Ballades -- 4 Scherzi and Earl Wild Plays His Transcriptions of Gershwin (Chesky Records). Chopin's works vary widely in mood and tempo, yet Wild sustains the long singing lines that provide their pulse and shape. That singing -- with wit, warmth and Lisztian heroics -- defines Wild's Gershwin, especially his extended Fantasy on Porgy...
...batch of madrigali, scherzi musicali, and canti amorosi by Claudio Monteverdi supplied the musical fun of the program. The vocal ensemble, especially tenori and bassi (as the printed program would have it), were in fine voice...