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...average age of their pitching staff is 24 years old now. The average age of eight Red Sox pitchers, on the other hand, is 34. (Frank Viola turned 34 yesterday). Still worse, the Sox boast a bunch of old players such as (former Brave) Otis Nixon, Scott Fletcher, Andre Dawson and Dave Valle...
...when Clemens could stop a three-game losing streak dead in its tracks. Perhaps he still can, but he can't do it alone. A young phenom, Aaron Sele, shows great promise, but he won't be enough. (Don't even think of Paul Quantrill, Danny Darwin or Viola...
...Tous les matins du monde" at 10 p.m. Structured as the reminiscences of the famed court composer and violinist Martin Marais, the film tells the story of two 17th century virtuosi, the reclusive Monsieur de Sainte Colombe and his student Marais, who played and wrote music for the viola da gamba. When Sainte Colombe discovers the love affair between his daughter Madeleine and Marais, he banishes Marais from his household and mentorship-to no avail...
...aperiod-instrument performer; playing frequently inarchaized style without vibrato and with notesseparated by the constraints of the baroque bow,she had become unused to the Romantic way ofplaying. But the precision of the next piece, theBeethoven Septet, suited her, and all those whoperformed in it. With Arturo Delmoni on viola,Ronald Thomas as `cellist, Timothy Cob as bass,Thomas Hill as clarinet, Donald Bravo playingbassoon and Robert Rauch again on French horn, theintimacy of the ensemble prevented thesemiorchestral atmosphere of the piece, reinforcedby the setting of Sanders Theatre, fromoverwhelming its chamber aspects. The workconsists of the traditional four movementsFast-Slow...
...evening came minutes later, when Perlman and Zukerman quieted the crowd by resuming their places center stage. As the reduced (for the Mozart) Israel Philharmonic sat by silently, the soloists commenced a reading of an unbilled marvel of virtuosity and musicality, the Handel Passacaglia arranged for violin and viola by Halvorsen...