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Musick for the Generall Peace performs works for two viols and two violins. Players include Laura Jeppesen (viola da gamba) and Daniel Stepner (baroque violin), in works by Purcell, Couperin, Corelli and others. Old South Church, Copley Square, Boston. 8:30 p.m. Tickets at $4, $3 with student ID. For info...
...Compleat Birdman wittily analyzes the unearthly urge that inspired biblical figures, Leonardo da Vinci and just about everyone else who ever wanted to trade the land for the wind. Here is Simon Magus, an early Roman necromancer who rose skyward (possibly by means of a balloon) before a crowd that included St. Peter. To the relief of the early Christian spectators, Magus suffered an instant-and fatal-crash. Haining wistfully relates the tale of Bladud, a doomed 9th century British king, who borrowed a page from Greek mythologies and perished like Icarus with a pair of feather-and-wax wings...
...started work last week as a visiting professor of journalism at Princeton and plans to ignore his unfinished Peter manuscript until the spring. "I'm not saying I'll never finish it," he told TIME Reporter Sarah Bedell. "Peter the Great has been around 300 years." Da, tovarich, but litterateurs may recall the fate of Leo Tolstoy, who, following the success of War and Peace, plunged into a novel about the selfsame czar. Even he abandoned the project for something shorter and simpler: Anna Karenina...
Cambridge Opera Workshop--Paul Hess conducts and Peter Frisch directs in an English-language production of Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte," libretto by da Ponte. Tickets $7.50, $5.00, $3.50. Info 899-9431 or 426-6210. New England Life Hall...
...Mercedes limousine glided to a halt at the Italian customs booth in Ventimiglia on the French frontier. The uniformed chauffeur airily pronounced the ritual phrase "Niente da dichiarare" (Nothing to declare). The passenger in the back seat was Carlo Aloisi, 60, one of Italy's leading bankers and businessmen. Normally, the driver would have been taken at his word and waved on. This time, though, the customs guard made a rare, fortuitous spot check. Digging deep into Aloisi's elegant black briefcase, the guard discovered contraband promissory notes and commercial paper valued at $3.1 million. Under the provisions...