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Manfred Honeck’s Philadelphia debut
Fresh wind from Pittsburgh
The Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck has excited audiences from Vienna to Pittsburgh with his flashy renditions and dramatic gestures. This weekend Philadelphians caught the fever as well.
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Brian Percival’s ‘The Book Thief’
Horrible events in pastel colors
The Book Thief paints the horrors of Nazi Germany in fairy tale pastels— which may be the only way today’s generations can begin to make sense of the unthinkable.
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Yuja and Yannick do Rachmaninoff
She’s young, she’s stylish, and she gets Rachmaninoff
Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto is one of the most technically challenging compositions in the piano literature. Yuja Wang transcended technique to reveal the very soul of the tormented composer’s music
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Austenmania: Moral fables for modern times
Beneath the cleavage: Jane Austen’s closet feminists
Why are 21st-century Americans attracted to narratives featuring heroines whose economic survival depends upon snaring a wealthy husband? Perhaps because they refuse to be passive victims.
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Sarah McEneaney’s ‘Trestletown’ at Locks
An artist, a woman and an urban activist
Sarah McEneaney’s unique voice invites viewers to experience the life of an artist who happens to be a woman living in Philadelphia and envisioning a future positive addition to the urban landscape: Trestletown.
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‘Enemy of the People’: The Berliner version
When the theater becomes a courtroom
The Schaubühne Theatre from Berlin is back, with a daring, defiant version of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People that sheds new light on a generation struggling to disengage itself from Germany’s catastrophic 20th-Century history.
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Orchestra 2001 and Network For New Music
91 years of novelty
The works presented at these two concerts spanned 91 years but were linked by a common interest in novelty, exploration and the relationship between words and music. The oldest piece looked peculiar in 1922 and still does.
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Joshua Redman Quartet at Annenberg
Everything you wanted to know about sax
Joshua Redman can hit notes you’d swear couldn’t possibly come out of a tenor sax. At the Annenberg Center, his post-bop incarnation delivered a tight and virtuosic 90-minute set.
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‘Thor: The Dark World’
Between superhero and myth
For 50 years, Marvel Comics’ Thor character has straddled the uneasy divide between the fantastic and the mundane. The latest installment of Thor’s cinematic franchise is a mixed bag but does a decent job of balancing the two genres.
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'Léger and the Metropolis’ at the Art Museum (2nd review)
Joys and neuroses of the machine age
Léger sought to escape the limits of the picture frame and use color to make an artwork part of the space in which it existed. But by celebrating mechanization, he and his contemporaries took the concept a bit too far.
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