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Nézet-Séguin conducts Mahler (third review)
Could we all use a resurrection? Mahler thought so
Mahler weaves between grief and excitement throughout the symphony. There is no conductor better than Nézet-Séguin in working with these changes, and he is excellent with liturgical and choral music as well. So the last two movements proved to be glorious in his hands.
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Nézet-Séguin conducts Mahler (2nd review)
Mahler’s tortured world
Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony had nothing to do with Christ and everything to do with the tormented composer’s own yearning for a better life after this one.
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‘Newsies’ at the Academy of Music (second review)
Protesting injustice in song and dance
A dancing set, a screaming audience, two dozen dancing newsboys. Who needs a believable story when everyone’s excited before the show even begins?
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Return of the Barrymore Awards
No egos, please — we're Philadelphians
Philadelphia’s Barrymore Awards returned after a two-year absence, stressing not star power but the diverse nature of Philadelphia theater and the innovative qualities of its newer companies.
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‘Newsies’ at the Academy of Music
More than the sum of its parts
Newsies offers a trite plot wrapped up in spectacular musical packaging.
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Pamela Gien’s ‘Syringa Tree’ in Norristown
Across the color line
Blacks and whites separated by apartheid in South Africa provide expressive performances by two fine actresses.
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Paul Strand at the Art Museum (second review)
Depth of exposure
Rather than expending glass or film negatives, time was the currency Paul Strand spent lavishly. Exposing himself with contemplative fervor to a location, he sought exact places and precise moments.
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Paul Strand at the Art Museum (first review)
New millennium homage to a 20th-century master
Some of Paul Strand’s images are so embedded in our collective consciousness that they are as familiar to us as our own faces in a mirror.
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Yefim Bronfman at the Perelman
Adventures of the sonata
The three sonatas programmed by Yefim Bronfman in his Perelman Theater recital told a tale of an artist moving from classical assurance to anxious assertion to violent despair.
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Calvin Hampton: An appreciation
An American genius
Calvin Hampton dared to take musical chances. While the results are uneven, his better compositions deserve a place in the repertoire.
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