Word: viole
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Then again, the living characters seem hardly worthy of the honor. Louisa Hufstader's medieval matron is suitably doughty and prim, and Dan Jacobs as the chaplain manages to draw some laughs via his doddering devotion to his viol. But Win Hoover, in a pivotal role as the elder of the conniving brothers, is too easygoing to contemplate chicanery. His gestures toward the women he supposedly desires are unbelievably half-hearted. Marie Richards as the timid Alizon does little to stir passion in any of her suitors, and with the other supporting players is humorlessly one-dimensional...
...really hard-core folkies might want to check out "In Praise of Folly," a satiric revue of English music written in the 16th century by Erasmus of Rotterdam. The Greenwood Consort, a six-member group of lute, tenor viol, recorder, krummerhorn and Flemish harp players, performs the revue Saturday at 8:30 p.m. at the Longy School, 1 Follyn St. in Cambridge. Tickets are $3.50 at the door $2 for students...
...together, the evening becomes memorable. It was so in David Storey's Home and it is so now. Flawless timing, intuitive ensemble work, a mastery of gesture from antic toe to arching eyebrow, and marvelously contrasting voices, Gielgud's rippling clarinet and Richardson's booming bass viol-they have it all. May some guardian angel of drama protect and preserve them in our midst...
...triumph is likely to spread far, for opera is becoming increasingly fashionable. At Esterház, for example, where Franz Josef Haydn serves as Kapellmeister to Prince Nicolaus the Magnificent, the composer has been asked to stop writing chamber music for the prince to play on his baryton viol and to drill his 22- man orchestra in opera. Among those who heard Haydn was Archduke Ferdinand, who commissioned him to compose an opera, La Vera Costanza, to be staged in Vienna later this year...
...Viol Consort Music. Ruth Rubinow, Sarah Cunningham, and others. Free. Friday, April...