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Enough with the adultery plots
After a life spent reading about every possible variation on the theme of people attempting to escape the bonds of holy matrimony, I’ve come to the point that whenever a book starts to turn into Yet Another Adultery Novel, I close it, return it to the library, and try again.
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Dolce Suono: Música en tus Manos
Trios and boleros
The Dolce Suono Ensemble bounced through a century of Latin-American concert and popular music, with a little help from some Philadelphia public school students.
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Dennis Lehane’s ‘World Gone By’
The luck of the Irish versus very bad karma
Will your evil itself kill you, or the evil milieu you have chosen — or will you skate? Dennis Lehane packs a Russian novel's worth of plot and meditations on morality into his newest.
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'What I Did Last Summer' and 'The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek'
From boyhood to manhood
These two luminous productions now playing side-by-side couldn't be more different on the surface, but at the heart, each of these two wonderful productions offers a deeply moving story about the coming of age of a boy and his country.
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Sondheim's 'Passion' at the Arden (first review)
Who deserves to be loved?
As The Bachelor and Bachelorette remind us, love is elusive and hard to find. In Passion, Stephen Sondheim has a lot of thoughts about love, but even in fiction, none of them leads to a happy ending.
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'The Outsider: Albert M. Greenfield' by Dan Rottenberg
An outsider and a visionary
Rottenberg's biography of Albert M. Greenfield paints an inspiring picture of a man who not only overcame his immigrant roots, but also targeted the anti-Semitism of the Protestant establishment. It does not, however, provide a useful analysis of the tycoon's visionary leadership.
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James Freeman, Alan Harler, and Margaret Garwood
Thanks for the memories
The music season ends with the retirement of two creative music directors and the death of a leading Philadelphia composer.
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On not knowing what to say
Memorial Day
Kile Smith considers becoming a composer by not trying to be important.
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The end of the Philadelphia Orchestra's 2014-15 season
The violin in the drawer
The Russians had the last word for the 2014-15 Orchestra season, with a major concerto and a symphony following an American premiere.
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'Memphis' at the Walnut Street Theatre
Solving the racial divide with music
Memphis is fun to watch, even as it offers a simplified lesson in race relations. Set in the South of the 1950s, it seems to say we could all get along if we just learned to sing the same songs.
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