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Mercedes Olivera, renowned Uruguayan harpsichordist, performs baroque works for that instrument in a concert tonight; Bach, Scarlatti and Rameau will be featured in the program. Go to Holmes Living Room, North House, for the free performance at 8. If you're still thirsting for more of the baroque and the beyond, Musica Sacra, conducted by Lenora McCroskey, plays works of Josquin, Battishill and others from the dark, dark ages. Also included are Brahms's Songs, Opus 62. The concert takes place Friday evening at Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Mass. Ave., at 8:30. There is a $1.50 contribution which might...
...Museum of Fine Arts presents the second in its series of harpsichord lectures on Tuesday. The subject will be Virginals by Johannes Ruckers, Antwerp 1620. John Gibbons, harpsichordist to the Musical Instruments Collection of the MFA, is the lecturer. Call 267-9300, ext. 340, for more information...
Flutist Jeffrey Cohan, winner of the 1977 Erwin Bodky Award for Early Music, and Harpsichordist Aline Parker, winner prizes from Paris Conservatory, will present a program of French baroque flute sonatas. Cohan and Parker will go through music by Bach, Hotteterre, de la Barre, and Blavet at the Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, off Brattle St. Doors open at 7:30. The charge is $2.50 for students...
Bach: Partitas No. 1 in B-Flat and No. 2 in C-Minor. (Igor Kipnis harpsichordist, Angel.) As musical forms go, the Baroque suite or partita was in its old age when Bach decided to have the final word on the subject. He not only included every kind of dance movement previously used (saraband, gigue, minuet) but also introduced some that had not been: capriccio, rondeau and scherzo. The French style of ornamentation, so essential a part of this music, is something Harpsichordist Igor Kipnis has long since mastered. His mordents, appoggiaturas and other embellishments have the ring...
There are, perhaps forgivably, some dancers who eventually come to view the show about as charitably as a harpsichordist girding for his umpty-umpth Messiah. A child might think it sheer bliss to be able to perform The Waltz of the Snowflakes. Says Vassilie Trunoff, ballet master of the London Festival Ballet: "I call it The Dance of the Cornflakes' because we've got corns on our feet from dancing it so often." There are few major dancers or choreographers whose careers have not crossed that of Herr Drosselmeyer, Marie (or Clara, as she is sometimes known...