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Jeffrey Siegel’s ‘Keyboard Conversations’ at the Perelman
The second coming of Leonard Bernstein
Jeffrey Siegel is a rare bird in Classical music circles: A world-class pianist whose words speak as eloquently as his fingers.
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‘Color Wars’ (or gender wars?) at Schmidt Dean
Oh, men! Oh, women!
Do men and women use color differently in abstract art? Chris Schmidt thinks so, but I’m not so sure.
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Lyric Fest salutes Benjamin Britten
A sensitive soul in peace and war
You can’t appreciate Benjamin Britten’s importance if you limit your listening to one or two types of music, as most of us do. You must listen to his major contributions to opera, choral music, orchestral music, art song and chamber music.
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‘The Best Man Holiday’
Why leave your living room?
Today you can rent any movie right from your living room to stream on your giant flat-screen TV. But watching this piece of feel-good holiday fluff with a very appreciative audience made me remember the benefits of the movie theater experience.
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‘Twelfth Night’ and ‘Richard III’ in New York
Boys will be girls (again)
Everything about these two current productions— presented just as they were 400 years ago— is wonderful. You rarely hear Shakespeare’s poetry spoken so beautifully and clearly on the stage.
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Keigwin + Company at Annenberg
Straightforward and unpretentious, but is it art?
The Annenberg audience loved Larry Keigwin’s pop-oriented dance troupe. I, on the other hand, found the presentation deeply flawed. Atrocious lighting didn’t help.
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'Flashdance The Musical' and Ballet X
Can you tell the dirty dancers from the ballerinas?
Street dancing once had the power to shock. Now there’s not much difference between the flashdancers of Flashdance The Musical and the classically trained dancers of BalletX. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
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How jazz rescued Classical music
The death and rebirth of Classical music radio
Thanks to deregulation, Classical music radio has struggled since the ’90s. But thanks to some shrewd managers at WRTI and an unlikely musical ally— jazz— it’s now flourishing in Philadelphia.
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Henry Bushkin's 'Johnny Carson'
His master’s voice
Like so many celebrities, Johnny Carson, the beloved king of late-night TV, was a public success and a personal failure. What does that tell us about his enabler, who is currently spilling the beans about his former client?
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Where have all the dance students gone?
Why study dance when you can party?
After teaching dance in Philadelphia for ten years, I can’t help wondering where all the dance students have gone. What competing attractions are grabbing their attention and money?