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...This guitar refuses to stay in tune," he complained, and later he apologized: "Tonight my guitar was not my sweetheart. It was my enemy." Segovia, 84, lives in Madrid where he is working on his four-volume autobiography. which he likes to think of as four movements of a sonata...
...Longy Wind Ensemble, conducted by Basil Chapman, plays works by Mozart and Beethoven on Friday, January 13. The School is located at 1 Follen St., near Radcliffe Quad. Call 876-0956 for details. Among the other Longy concerts is a Special Faculty Concert on Monday, January 16, featuring sonatas of Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven. "Music for Viennese Fortepiano," on Friday, January 20, includes Mozart's Piano Sonata K. 281 and Beethoven's Sonata in C sharp minor Op. 27, no. 2. In a more modern vein, the New England Woodwind Quintet performs works of Villa-Lobos, Barber and Janacek...
Among other concerts in Cambridge during this balmy January is an all-Schubert program by acclaimed Viennese pianist Paul Badura-Skoda, who plays Schubert's Sonata in A Major Op. 120, Four Impormptus, and Atzengrugger Dances in Sanders Theatre on Wednesday, February 1, at 8:30 pm. Even if exams weren't over by this date, there would be no excuse for missing this concert. Phone 266-3314 for free tickets given by the Peabody-Mason Foundation. Also in Cambridge are Part III of Bach's Clavieruebung, at the First Church, 11 Garden St., on February 5, and the Thursday...
...Broadway, is now the best Porgy on records. Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon, 8 LPs). Herbert von Karajan, the Berlin Philharmonic and Beethoven, at their best. Schubert: Symphony No. 9 (Philips). Bernard Haitink and the Concertgebouw Orchestra produce the finest modern version of this noble epic. Beethoven: "Waldstein" Sonata; "Eroica" Variations (RCA). At 28, Emanuel Ax comes of age as a master of the classical style. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Angel, 4 LPs). Mussorgsky's original version on records for the first time, lovingly interpreted by Conductor Jerzy Semkow...
...have been informed that their home, their phones, even their two cars are bugged. Plainclothesmen keep their house under surveillance. Woods gets up after 8:30 a.m., an hour later than in his newspaper days. A gifted amateur pianist, he practices, for an hour, Chopin's B-minor Sonata-which, his wife says, should take him a month to master. "It's a virtuoso piece," says Wife Wendy 36 who must now speak for her husband. "The piece has been sitting in the house for years just waiting for Donald " There is lunch at the big kitchen table...