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Khaner let his flute do most of the talking.

Chamber Orchestra: Mozart and controversy

Old audiences and the young Mozart

Where are the young audiences? Did Mozart hate the flute? Was the young Mozart a genius or merely a talented prodigy? Arguing about music after a concert may be fun, but the performers usually get the last word.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 4 minute read
The Artemis Quartet: A problem in the programming.

Artemis Quartet at the Perelman

Missing body report

Whatever else you may say about Beethoven, even at his most ethereal and refined, his is a music that speaks through the body. You don’t play him like Debussy or Fauré.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 4 minute read
"Sometimes I need to feel nothing": Keith J. Conallen as the title character in "Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq" at the Wilma. (Photo by Alexander Iziliaev)

'Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq' at the Wilma (1st review)

A marine in freefall

A gripping play about veterans of the Iraq war is daring and frightening in its world premiere.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 3 minute read
Diane Collins, "Relic I": existing as mystery

When words get in the way

Words without borders; art without why

In a need for knowing why, words are used as a Leviathan to capture art.
Treacy Ziegler

Treacy Ziegler

Articles 5 minute read
Gonglewski, Swartz, Madigan: In search of psychological liberation. (Photo: Mark Garvin.)

Durang’s ‘Vanya and Sonia’ by PTC

Six characters in search of a catalyst

Christopher Durang’s witty if lightweight comedy Vanya and Sonia poses a puckish literary question: If Chekhov’s characters were given a second chance to pursue the road less taken, where would they go?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Articles 4 minute read
Those wacky Nazis: Willem Dafoe and Adrien Brody in “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”

Wes Anderson's 'Grand Budapest Hotel' (second review)

Inside a Central European snow globe

The Grand Budapest Hotel is no different from Wes Anderson’s other films — it is visually stunning and quite funny, but there is nothing at the center.
Jake Blumgart

Jake Blumgart

Articles 3 minute read
Fiennes as the concierge Gustave H.: The more things change...

Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’

The glory that once was (not) Zubrowka

Wes Anderson’s marvelously inventive Grand Budapest Hotel is that rare film that can be enjoyed on several levels. And it arrives at an especially propitious moment in history.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Articles 4 minute read

When an autistic child enjoys performing

Making music with Malcolm

It wouldn't have occurred to me that my autistic son might want to appear in a musical, but he did.
Maria Thompson Corley

Maria Thompson Corley

Articles 6 minute read
Philadelphia’s Chinatown has been squeezed by redevelopment projects since the 1960s. (photo by Beyond My Ken, via wikimedia.org)

Documentaries about gentrification

Telling neighborhood stories

Some urban neighborhoods under pressure from the forces of gentrification document their battles through documentaries. Filmmaker Kathryn Smith Pyle singles out some worth your consideration.
Kathryn Smith Pyle

Kathryn Smith Pyle

Articles 6 minute read
Solzhenitsyn: In Richter's shadow.

Solzhenitsyn plays Prokofiev

Prokofiev in deadly earnest

Prokofiev’s war sonatas are rarely played in the West. Russia itself seems at stake in this music, and there’s probably no living pianist who can play them better than Ignat Solzhenitsyn.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 3 minute read