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Boston University School for the Arts Faculty Recital-with Joan Heller, soprano, and Thomas Stumpf, pianist. In the Tsai Performance Center at 685 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston. Call 353-3345. Sunday...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra--with Seiji Ozawa, conducter, and Janis Taylor, mezzo-soprano, performs Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 and Prokofiev's "Alexander Nevsky." At the Boston Symphony Hall at 2 p.m. on Friday and 8 p.m. on Saturday...
SIDNEY BECHET: THE COMPLETE VICTOR MASTER TAKES (Bluebird). THE COMPLETE SIDNEY BECHET ON BLUE NOTE (available from Mosaic, 35 Melrose Place, Stamford, Conn. 06902). Born in New Orleans in 1897, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet was one of the most talented and influential jazz musicians who ever blew a horn. As Louis Armstrong did for the trumpet, Bechet turned the soprano sax into a powerful solo voice. If Armstrong went on to achieve greater fame, Bechet had the more interesting life: affairs with Josephine Baker, Bessie Smith and Tallulah Bankhead; deportation from Britain; gunfights in Paris; and finally, ascension...
...that cold February night at Briggs Cage, there was no crackly 45 to blare the National Anthem through tinny speakers. There was no sugar-sweet soprano behind whom fans could mumble the timeworn lyrics...
MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 7 & KINDERTOTENLIEDER (Philips). Seiji Ozawa leads the BostonSymphony Orchestra in a performance of extraordinary transparency, penetrated by the miraculous colors and moods of this vast, emotionally charged work. Jessye Norman's soprano is more enveloping than probing in the achingly beautiful Songs on the Deaths of Children...