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Boston Musica Viva--performs Rodriguez's Tango, Carter's Con Leggerezza Penosa, Boulez's Derive, and Shapley's Evocations II. Longy School of Music, Edward Pickman Hall, 27 Garden St, Cambridge. Friday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m. $10:$5 for students and seniors...
...Billboard certainly was mysterious: the simple, unexplained declaration "Keep Music Evil" on last week's front page raised more than a few eyebrows. The slogan represents the philosophy of the FATIMA MANSIONS, an Irish band that has just released its U.S. debut disk Viva Dead Ponies. According to lead singer Cathal Coughlan, the group hopes to capture rock's old outlaw image by overthrowing the sugarcoated commercialism prevalent on the pop charts today. To promote that "mission," the album dissects a British society rife with "squalid poverty where the poor prey on the even poorer," says Coughlan. Included...
...entourage made its way around the country's largest black township, young men cried, "Viva, comrade!" and children shouted, "Welcome!" Greetings for African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela? No. Last week crowds in Soweto (pop. 2 million) were showing appreciation for a white politician. President F.W. de Klerk took an unannounced tour of Soweto following weeks of violence involving rival black factions and security forces. Blacks cheered De Klerk, explained Agnes Molahlehi, 25, a nursing student, because he freed Mandela and has taken steps to abolish apartheid...
...exactly how Colacello remembers Colacello in this 514-page nag. Dueling diaries may be the perfect '80s moment, in which two shallow people recount in mind-numbing detail the comings and goings (a lot of time is spent in cabs) of long-forgotten and always boring celebrities like Viva, Baby Jane Holzer and Jerry Hall. Warholian scholars, if there is such a category, might want to read this book to decide once and for all whether Truman Capote liked Bob better than Andy. Others should be warned: the only thing worse than reading about the Velvet Underground's evenings...
...Jersey Shore rocker ditched his wife, broke up his band, recorded a version of Elvis' Viva Las Vegas and bought a $14 million Beverly Hills estate. Is the Boss trying to become the King...