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Western Front. 343 Western Ave., Cambridge. 492-7772. Cool Runnings on Friday, Oct. 22 and Saturday, Oct. 23. Jane Hayes Quartet on Tuesday...
Chapel Concert Series. Cambridge String Quartet perform works of Schubert and Scarlatti. MIT Chapel, 77 Mass Ave., on Oct. 7 at noon. Call 253-2906 for more information...
Gorecki's compositional language has changed over the years; it is a long way from the atonal pointillism of the Symphony No. 1 and the relentless brutality of the Choros I to the contemplative beauties of the Quasi una Fantasia quartet of 1991. The symphony, so typically "modern" in its harsh sonorities and deliberate absence of melodic appeal, is not much different from what Boulez and others in Western Europe were doing at about the same time; the Choros, meanwhile, is clearly influenced by Gorecki's countryman Krzysztof Penderecki, notably by the Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima...
...performances, by conductor Roland Bader and the Krakow Philharmonic and the inestimable Kronos Quartet, are excellent. And for those looking to recapture the magic of Symphony No. 3, the delicious trio of miniatures, In the Old Style, is just the ticket at a tenth the length...
...between a French diplomat (Jeremy Irons) and a Chinese man (John Lone) whom he believes to be a woman; it opens commercially Oct. 1. This Wednesday, Wayne Wang's lovely The Joy Luck Club, a fourfold Terms of Endearment based on Amy Tan's best-selling novel about a quartet of Chinese-American families, premieres in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. "Maybe Asian is the flavor of the month," Wang says. "That taste keeps changing, but now it has coincided with the maturity of talent." Lee has a simpler explanation for the burgeoning: "Natural law. It looks like...