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Chapel Concert Series. Cambridge String Quartet perform works of Schubert and Scarlatti. MIT Chapel, 77 Mass Ave., on Oct. 7 at noon. Call 253-2906 for more information...
Perversely, music played an important role in the Nazi concentration camps. Loudspeakers blared Schubert, Wagner and march music, while, less officially, prisoners smuggled in instruments and put on private musicales. In "model" camps such as Theresienstadt (Terezin) in Bohemia, the inmates were even encouraged to perform for visiting Red Cross workers to show that they were being treated humanely. The late French composer Olivier Messiaen wrote one of this century's most illuminating chamber works, the Quartet for the End of Time, while incarcerated in a Silesian camp. Messiaen survived. But for most victims time was something that indeed came...
...then there is the central fact that Roger did not have simply an older brother; he had a perfect older brother. "Everyone was excited when Bill would come home," says Roger's childhood friend Will Schubert. "We would just sit on the front porch waiting for him to drive up in his Mustang." Schubert is one of three close friends who describe how, early on, Roger internalized a sense of deficiency in relation to his brother and a need for approval from him. "When we'd get in trouble doing stupid things, he would punish himself so much because...
...Newton Music School--performs Schubert's Die Winterreise. 321 Chestnut St, Newton. Firday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m. Free...
Among the less remembered of Haydn's vocal works are the intimate English Canzonettas, simple setting of poems by Anne Hunter that prefigure the great lieder of Schubert and his contemporaries, and the cantata "Arianna a Naxos". These are coupled on a revelatory new disc from Virgin Classics' Veritas line (number 91215), with mezzosoprano Carolyn Watkinson and Glen Wilson at the fortepiano...