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Dolce Suono's Debussy farewell
Debussy and his putative successors
Dolce Suono ended its season-long tribute to Debussy by combining a Debussy retrospective with a new music event.
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Sargent watercolors at Brooklyn Museum
Worlds apart from his portraits
A landmark exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum showcases the brilliant watercolors of John Singer Sargent. It's a rare opportunity to see an abundance of these rich intimate treasures by the 19th-Century master of fashion portraits.
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Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby'
The book was so much better
Why do film directors seem intent on trashing great literature? Baz Luhrmann's glitzy, elaborate version of The Great Gatsby is all self-important spectacle, and, like Joe Wright's recent Anna Karenina, a travesty of the original.
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"The Assembled Parties' on Broadway
Terms of estrangement
In Richard Greenberg's witty comedy drama, The Assembled Parties, life doesn't turn out as expected for an extended upper class New York family. But does Greenberg have a substantive message to deliver, or is he just out to entertain us with witty dialogue and plot contrivances?
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Philadelphia Orchestra plays Ligeti (2nd review)
Is Ligeti the Orchestra's savior?
When was the last time you heard a Philadelphia Orchestra concert that included the crumpling of newspaper as a part of the score? Not to mention the audience laughing out loud throughout the performance?
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Verdi's "Macbeth' in Wilmington
Verdi's not so hidden agenda
With Macbeth, Verdi wasn't merely adapting a great work of literature; he was nudging history forward in real time.
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Philip Dawkins's "Failure: A Love Story'
A whimsical survival course
Failure: A Love Story is an enchanting poetic fable in which members of the Fail family make the most of life's tragedies by spinning their own narratives to turn back the clock.
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Rattle and Hannigan with the Philadelphia Orchestra (1st review)
From the sublime to the macabre
Simon Rattle, conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra's penultimate concert of the season, reminded us that it's easier for a visiting conductor to choose the road less traveled than for the helmsman of the Orchestra, for whom the risk of empty seats is not to be taken lightly.
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"Here Lies Love': Imelda Marcos in New York
Bedazzled
How could an entire starving nation fall under the sway of a dazzling charlatan like Imelda Marcos? The disco-style poporetta Here Lies Love will seduce you in much the same way. Unfortunately, it neglects to address the greatest irony of all: what happened to Imelda after the music stopped.
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Tempesta di Mare: Four Baroque entertainments
Music, entertainment— or both?
Baroque music languished in the 19th Century because it seemed tame next to Beethoven or Brahms. It was merely entertainment— albeit for musically sophisticated audiences, as Tempesta di Mare reminded us.
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