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...Violinist-Percussionist Ricardo Frota--in an evening of spontaneous music improvisation. Presented by Mobius, Boston's artist-run center for experimental work in all media. Frota is an improviser and experimental composer, a violinist and percussionist who has performed in Europe, Brazil and the U.S. At Mobius at 354 Congress St. near the South Station stop on the Red Line. Call 542-7416. Tickets are $7. Saturday...
...Violinist Daniel Stepner and fortepianist John Gibbons-perform an all-Mozart program. Tickets are $12, $6 for students, available at the door. In Houghton Library...
...coming -- mostly from a 300-mile radius that takes in St. Louis, Memphis and Wichita, but increasingly from all across the U.S. Patrons can meet the stars' families in theater lobbies; Tillis' wife, for one, sells candy. Most of the performers sit onstage at intermission to sign autographs, and violinist Shoji Tabuchi heads to the parking lot after his show to wave goodbye to the tour buses. Prices are right too. You can still get a motel room for $40, and there are 6,000 campsites in town. Says Mary Nell King of Pocahontas, Ark.: "I've seen one Broadway...
Next spring will see the strongest surge yet: new theaters from Johnny Cash, Silver Dollar City and, perhaps, Andy Williams. Country is still king, but the newer shows have broader ambitions. Violinist Tabuchi's variety show, perhaps the most popular in town, downplays country and goes heavy on glitz. Says Ben Bush, a businessman who plans a two-theater complex next spring: "People want to be entertained. If that means less country music, then that is what it will take...
...dexterous (on the right, skillful). The Spanish word for left-handed, zurdo, means malicious. If you are gauche (left) in France, you are tactless and unsophisticated. Adroit comes from the French a droit (to the right), and we know what maladroit means -- especially when we see a left-handed violinist bowing northwest while the rest of the string section is northeast. A left-handed compliment is not nice, but a right-hand man is indispensable. If you get up on the wrong (left) side of the bed, you are grumpy. Even rwiting about it can give a leftie a migraine...