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Indian court drawings and modern Indian photography at the Art Museum
From royal court to contemporary visions
Two shows at the Art Museum approach life in India from very different directions: Court drawings from the 16th through 19th centuries versus photography from the 20th and 21st.
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David Bowie: An appreciation
Celebrating the alien
Ziggy Stardust’s strange, androgynous appearance held a strong fascination for a teenager just beginning to realize how different he was in other ways. For me, as for most teenagers, music played a crucial role in building an identity, and David Bowie played an important part in my early search for self.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra with pianist Jan Lisiecki
Exploring the beauty and tumult of Vienna
The music in this concert of Viennese pastry reflected both of the faces of Vienna: It was romantically sweet but with a bitter crust. Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, while exploiting the rich sound of the Philadelphia Orchestra to bring out the grand sonorities, also conveyed Vienna’s underlying disturbances and tensions.
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'Moon for the Misbegotten' at Walnut Street Theatre
A booze-laden romance that could never be
With all we know about the challenges of relationships with alcoholics, Eugene O’Neill’s depiction of an alcoholic con man in love and the woman who cares for him still resonates with tragic impossibility.
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PCMS presents the Orion Quartet with Richard Woodhams
Back from the break
Richard Woodhams joined the Orion Quartet for the Chamber Music Society’s first concert of the new year, which was varied and mostly satisfying but featured a Beethoven shorn of its edge.
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Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal at the Prince
Tribal strength on display
Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal presented an evening of mostly first-class work that used the memories of our distant origins to propel us into an unknown but fascinating future.
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Luisi and Tetzlaff with the Philadelphia Orchestra
The rockstar reception of violinist Christian Tetzlaff
Conductor Fabio Luisi is an opera man and violinist Christian Tetzlaff has a singing tone, so their collaboration on the Tchaikovsky Concerto in D major was memorable.
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The Wilma Theater Transformation Fund
Transforming in plain sight
The Wilma Theater is reinventing itself inside and out. With a new name and upgraded façade, a café open to the public, new rehearsal space, and a training program for a resident company of actors, the theater wants to transform how theater is made and how it interacts with the community in which it resides.
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Gender presentation in 'The Danish Girl'
A different way of looking at gender
By rearranging The Danish Girl's narrative into conventional “woman stands by her man [sic]” tropes, the filmmakers can do something far more radical: proclaim the power of the female gaze.
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David Bowie and classic rock’s death knells
David Bowie's death gets Craig Peters thinking about how other rock greats have sung about the Ultimate Question.
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