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Opera Philadelphia's "Silent Night' (1st review)
When the fighting stopped
Kevin Puts's Silent Night is based on a remarkable true incident during the first Christmas Eve of World War I, when enemy soldiers in adjoining trenches spontaneously agreed to a brief truce, in defiance of their commanding officers. It‘s the kind of compelling story that's too often missing from today's operas.
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Orchestra's "Carmina Burana'
Who can argue with FrÓ¼hbeck?
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos looks frail these days, and older than his 79 years, but he conducted Carmina Burana from memory in a gorgeously persuasive interpretation.
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Choral Arts sings Rossini's "Petite Messe'
Joyful Christianity, for a change
Rossini, a master of comic opera, gave us a good-natured, beautiful mass for Saturday night— a piece that offers all the charm and grace of a romance with a happy ending.
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El Anatsui at Brooklyn Museum
Lesson from Nigeria: The process matters more than the product
The extraordinary African artist El Anatsui crafts huge, richly beautiful works from ordinary but highly symbolic debris.
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Composer's quandary: Ideas vs. music (Part III)
Composer's quandary (continued): When the idea says ‘Yes,' but the music says ‘No'
Throwing out music is one of the composer's most necessary jobs. People ask composers how we get ideas, but ideas are easy. The hardest part is throwing out every idea except the one that's perfect.
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Schulner's "Infinite Ache' at Theatre Horizon
It's later than you think
David Schulner's An Infinite Ache speeds us through the lives of a man and woman from their first date to their old age in 90 minutes.
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Elem Klimov's "Come and See'
The greatest anti-war film (and also the least watchable)
Elem Klimov's searing account of the genocidal massacres by Nazi troops in Byelorussia in 1943 has been called the greatest anti-war film ever made. But Come and See is almost beyond critical categories. No one who does see it will ever forget it.
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Hugo Wolf's "Spanish Songs': Dual recital
This composer was depressed?
The charming British tenor Ian Bostridge and the pitch-perfect Austrian mezzo Angelika Kirchschlager make something of an odd couple. But they found their chemistry toward the end of a recital of Hugo Wolf's delightful Spanish Songs.
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Alvin Ailey at the Merriam
Fresh blood for an old legacy
Can new director Robert Battle breathe new vitality into the iconic Alvin Ailey troupe? This month's programs suggest the answer is yes— if he relies on the spiritual work of Ronald K. Brown and Rennie Harris.
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Tempesta di Mare's Bach with alterations
Bach without his organ
Tempesta di Mare sustained an old Baroque tradition, remodeling six of Bach's organ works to suit other instruments.
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