Discovering C.P.E. Bach

Greater Boston Arts unravels the mystery of the lost music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son of Johann Sebastian. Better known in his lifetime than his father, C.P.E. was a prolific composer, a virtuoso performer and a highly-regarded music theorist. Since World War II, the last twenty years of C.P. E.'s creative output was considered to be lost. The manuscripts were taken as war booty by the Soviets and were only recently discovered by Harvard scholar Christian Wolff and researcher Patricia Kennedy Grimsted in a Ukrainian archive. Greater Boston Arts traces the discovery and speaks with the Handel and Haydn Society's John Finney as he prepares to play the "Hymn of Thanks and Friendship" for what may well be the first time since Bach played it himself. The premiere is scheduled for March at Boston's Symphony Hall. For more information on C.P.E. Bach and the recent discovery of his lost manuscripts visit the highlight.

Choreographer Marcus Schulkind

After more than thirty-five years as a choreographer, dancer and teacher, Marcus Schulkind is disbanding his company. A Bostonian for over ten years, Schulkind is notable, according to at least one critic, for keeping the modern tradition of dance alive in this city. Inspired by his mentor, modern master Martha Graham, Schulkind started his own company in 1975, and in 1990 co-founded Green Street Dance Studios in Cambridge. Critics Iris Fanger and Thea Singer interpret Schulkind's contributions while principal dancers and students demonstrate his technique. As the company prepares for its final Green Street performance, humorously entitled "A Farewell to Arms and Legs," Greater Boston Arts demonstrates why Schulkind is so important to the city's dance community.

Marcus Schulkind Dance Company performs
FAREWELL TO ARMS AND LEGS
Green Street Studios
185 Green Street
Cambridge
March 29 Ð April 1, 2001
For more information call (617) 864-3191 or visit www.greenstreetstudios.org

Puppetry Grown Up

Greater Boston Arts introduces viewers to the reinvention of the art form of puppetry in "Blood From a Turnip," a monthly, late-night puppet salon at the Perishable Theatre in Providence, Rhode Island. The Theatre was created in 1997 by Vanessa Gilbert and Jeremy Woodward to provide a forum for emerging artists working in the field of puppetry. Now in its fourth season, "Blood" regularly draws sell-out crowds. Woodward explains that puppetry is an interdisciplinary art form that requires the skills of an actor, storyteller and visual artist, as well as mastery of the technical manipulation of the puppets. Greater Boston Arts offers viewers an inside look at the work of puppeteers who take the genre beyond conventional boundaries.

BLOOD FROM A TURNIP
Perishable Theatre
95 Empire Street
Providence, RI
March 16, 2001
For more information call (401) 331-2695 or visit www.perishable.org

Jim Napolitano performs
SHADOWS & LIGHT
Puppet Showplace Theatre
32 Station Street
Brookline
March 10 and 11, 2001
(Special evening performance for adults, March 10, 2001)
For tickets and information call (617) 731-6400 or visit www.puppetshowplace.org.