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AGASSIZ THEATER. Baroque chamber music for violin, viola da gamba, and harpsichord. Music of Bach, Buxtehude, Rameau, and Byrd. Tickets: $2.50 (Benefit for Radcliffe Day-care Centers...
Died. Robert Casadesus, 73, French composer and pianist, best known for his pure, elegantly phrased interpretations of Mozart, Rameau, Debussy and Ravel; of cancer of the pancreas; in Paris. Born in Paris and trained at the piano from the age of four, Casadesus composed more than 60 works of his own including six symphonies. More widely recognized as a performer, he made 3,000 concert appearances during his 50-year career, as well as at least 30 recordings. Included in his concert repertory were several seldom performed compositions, three-piano concertos that Casadesus played with his wife Gaby and elder...
Dunster House Music Society, works by Bach and Rameau. 5:30, Feb. 18. Works by Schumann and Read...
...four Dutch cities. Its imaginative programming includes four concerts devoted entirely to works of Berg, Schoenberg and Webern, played by The Hague Residentie Orchestra under Pierre Boulez in Scheveningen; three Debussy cycles in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague. More conventional fare by the Concertgebouw Orchestra; dance and opera (from Rameau's Platée to Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron) is also offered...
...operatic style is more closely wedded to its native language than the small but heady French repertory. Its best composers, from Rameau to Poulenc, created music that wraps itself tightly around every inflection of the spoken word. Without French-born singers who can respond instinctively to the language embedded in the music, French opera is likely to languish-which is just what has been happening at New York's Metropolitan...