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Faculty Recital--John Daverio, narrator; Augusto Paglialunga, guest tenor; and John Crotty, guest piano will perform Brahms, Magelone-Romanzen. Monday, Feb. 10,8 p.m. Yuri Mazurkevich, violin. Tuseday, Feb. 11, 8 p.m. Boston university Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. Free...
...children's original Christmas tree, a dying cedar sapling adorned with construction paper ornaments, sits on the dining table. But there is a new tree in the room, an artificial one that cost a hefty $13.99 and stands as the centerpiece of the tiny living room. Bobby's rich tenor voice bounces off the beige walls, bare except for a few Christmas decorations, in a jazzy version of White Christmas. "We'll have Christmas anyway. It'll be better next year," he says. The family is still only a paycheck away from homelessness, but they have acquired some valuable lessons...
...play opens with Frederic's (remarkable tenor Joel Derfner) 21st birthday, marking the official end of his legal apprenticeship to a band of pirates. His nursemaid, Ruth, (a clear and comic Diana Graham) had mistaken his father's request of "pilot" for "pirate" training and, now that Frederic is free, he seeks to destroy piracy...
...marry Ruth when she convinces him that despite her old age (47), she is still as pretty as other girls. He rejects her when he sees the more attractive young daughters of Major General Stanley (George Torbay, imported from the New England Conservatory of Music). Definer's sweet tenor voice moves the maidens hearts until he pleads, "Is there not one maiden here whose homely face and bad complexion/Have caused all hope to disappear of ever winning man's affection...
...oratorio, the someone else was Carl Davis, an American-born film composer and accomplished pastiche artist. After McCartney wrote the text and invented the tunes, Davis arranged them slickly for soprano (Kiri Te Kanawa at the Liverpool premiere and on the recording), mezzo (Sally Burgess), tenor (Jerry Hadley), bass (Willard White), boy soprano, chorus, cathedral choir and full orchestra...