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Astral Artists and Network for New Music
Saxophones and butterflies
Astral Artists and the Network for New Music present new music from Europe, Algeria, Japan, and Philadelphia.
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'Sense and Sensibility' at People's Light (second review)
Can Jane Austen pass the Bechdel test?
Sense and Sensibility fails the popular test about women characters in fiction, but succeeds in many other ways.
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Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra
Fresh insight born of long experience
As a last-minute replacement on the podium, Michael Tilson Thomas won over the audience with a classy program.
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'Plutus' by Aristophanes at Plays and Players
Wealth and poverty for laughs
The youthful cast of Once More Theater embody high spirits, belly laughs, clever off-center meditations, and all-around comic anarchy in Aristophanes’s Plutus.
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'The Burglary' by Betty Medsger
Breaking and entering
The extent and nature of J. Edgar Hoover's surveillance of peaceful protesters were unknown until seven antiwar activists broke into the Media FBI office in 1971. The documents the burglars took provided the signposts to investigate Hoover's horrifying subversion of the Constitution.
'Vinyl' on HBO
Deep tracks
Vinyl is Scorsese at his most Scorsese. Unfortunately, the master offers little that we haven’t seen before.
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'Sense and Sensibility' at People's Light
A rocky road to marriage
People's Light stages the regional premiere of a fine adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved novel.
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FX's 'The People v. O.J. Simpson'
Revisiting the O.J. case
O.J. Simpson was not treated like any other defendant arrested for a double homicide. The characters involved aren’t the suspects you expect in a domestic murder — they’re squares in the crazy quilt of American celebrity.
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Violinist Elizabeth Fayette plays four French composers
Young and promising
Elizabeth Fayette demonstrates that she possesses some of the most important qualities a violinist can bring to her work.
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PCMS presents the Modigliani Quartet
Saving the best for last
After a slow start, the Modigliani Quartet lived up to their reputation in a Perelman recital.
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