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Press Play by the Pennsylvania Ballet
Ángel Corella takes over the Pennsylvania Ballet
With only two months to inspire new breath into the company, Ángel Corella has revived it admirably.
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Paintings of animals
Animals in our unlikeness
Does art ask us to dispel an identity with ourselves and accept a gap between what we know and what we experience?
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Cellist Hai-Ye Ni conducts and plays with the Chamber Orchestra
An event for the record books
The principal cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra plays five concertos in one afternoon and takes on a bit of conducting while she does it.
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'Row After Row' at People's Light
Past and present collide in 'Row After Row'
Jessica Dickey's Row After Row, currently playing on People's Light & Theatre Company's Steinbright Stage, probes the lives of Civil War reenactors. Do they need to get a life, or is borrowing someone else's good enough?
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Day Job at the Print Center
Vocation photos
Six photographers turn their cameras on the stuff of their day jobs in an intriguing show at the Print Center.
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'Rapture, Blister, Burn' at the Wilma
Feminism on the rocks
My feminism is visceral. I learned it on the job, so to speak. Perhaps I should have taken more notes while I was fighting for equal pay for equal work so that I could better have understood the consequences of the choices I made, but I’m living the life I wanted, even if this Rapture, Blister, Burn hints that perhaps I should have made other choices.
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Tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Jonathan Biss
Songs of ecstasy and painful longing
Schumann's music explores the pain and ecstasy of love. Adding compositions by two later composers, Michael Tippett and Gabriel Fauré, served to illustrate the sea change in the pleasure/pain principle between Romanticism and Modernism.
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Gilbert conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra
Rare and well done
I’ve said it before, but the best orchestra programs are the ones that make you see how musical tradition evolves and reflects upon itself. This was one of them.
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Lev Grossman's 'Magician's Land'
Finding the magic in adult life
Grossman is successful in providing a contemporary alternative to the fantasy paradigm, engaging the reader’s material reality with his multiple layers of fantasy more effectively than the single-layer fantasy novels of Rowling, Lewis, or Tolkien before him.
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An appreciation of George Stubbs
George Stubbs is known for his paintings of horses, but this 18th-century artist should be seen as a precursor of the modern.
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