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Backstage, the legendary Cajun fiddler Dewey Balfa, 65, waits his turn to go on, a red plastic crawfish dangling from the neck of his violin. He speaks of the "great migration" -- the expulsion of the French Acadians from Canada in 1755 -- as if it happened yesterday. "What they brought here is still alive in our culture and our love for each other," he says. "I'm an American, but I don't want to lose my French identity...
...Chapel Series--presents a violin, cello and fortepiano performance of Haydn and Mozart trios in the MIT Chapel. Thursday at noon...
Boston University School for the Arts--presents a flute, violin and piano performance of Mozart, Martinu, Barber, Martin and Schubert at the Tsai Performance Center at 685 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston. Call 353-3345. Friday...
...device for the baby-in-waiting. Logan has more prenatal improvement products in the works -- as yet undisclosed -- as well as some postnatal items for the sonic-belt kids. He predicts that one day pregnant women will be wearing devices that offer an even more sophisticated curriculum. What next? Violin lessons for the unborn...
Unlike the enigmatic violin, he says, the saxophone is an easy instrument to learn, one that lends itself well to self-study. Which explains why, all throughout high school and college, he has "mostly just played and jammed...