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Haunted house movies
Haunted house, haunted family
Haunted house movies rely on tired old tropes because all the movies explore the same theme: a dysfunctional family and how its secrets tear it apart.
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Tempesta di Mare plays Praetorious and Bach
The songs of the cosmic bourgeois
Tempesta di Mare presents a Baroque concert that makes a good companion to the Charles Ives concert the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presented earlier in the same week.
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Netrebko in Verdi’s ‘Macbeth’
Seeing is believing
Anna Netrebko triumphs as Lady Macbeth, but you’d never know it by listening only.
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Face Value at the Main Line Art Center
21st-century portraiture
Face Value should wake up all those galleries in Philadelphia that are still showing 20th-century art as if it is contemporary.
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Copland's 'Shall We Gather at the River'
Moved to tears
There’s music I like more than Aaron Copland’s “Shall We Gather at the River?” that does not make me cry, so what is the power of this piece?
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Lisa D’Amour’s ‘Detroit’ by PTC (second review)
Playing house
Detroit has been criticized for being too shallow — it could have gone into a deeper, less superficial exploration of Real Issues, like class and economic despair. After all, nothing much happens. However, the play’s genius is in its refusal to go there. It keeps us, like its characters, comfortable in what we see, wholly entertained, but not quite satisfied.
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Photographer Ray Metzker: An appreciation
Remembering Ray Metzker, one of the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century and first decade of this one.
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Dawn Upshaw and Gilbert Kalish perform Charles Ives
Ives thrives with Dawn Upshaw and Gilbert Kalish
Charles Ives broke open the warp and woof of American music in a way that no other composer has before or since. Dawn Upshaw and Gilbert Kalish provide the celebration he deserves.
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Susan Watts in Chestnut Hill
A fourth-generation klezmer tackles jazz
Klezmer, which is derived from the Hebrew word for “instrument of song,” refers not only to the Eastern European Jewish music idiom itself but also to the musicians who specialize in its performance. Susan Watts is certainly one of its foremost practitioners, now boldly expanding into klezmer’s distant cousin jazz, which shares many of klezmer’s defining attributes.
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'You Can’t Take It with You' on Broadway
An all-star cast in a classic comedy
If you think your family is eccentric, wait till you meet the Sycamores, the stars of the show and the nuttiest family ever to inhabit an American living room — let alone a stage.
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