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"Noël and Gertie' at the Walnut's Independence Studio 3 (2nd review)
The anguish behind the wit
Noël and Gertie is a series of reminiscences and songs by Coward and Gertrude Lawrence, for whom Coward wrote some of his best-remembered pieces. Theirs was an unequal relationship, and Sheridan Morley's script has its pluses and minuses.
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Marin Alsop's elegant simplicity
Less bombastic, but thoroughly convincing
Marin Alsop conducts the classics much the way she dresses: unfussy, simple and elegant.
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Samuel Hsu: A polymath's giant shadow
The world was his classroom
The polymath Dr. Samuel Hsu, who died last week, was a pianist and musicologist who spoke eight languages and was conversant in linguistics, philosophy, science, theology, history, fine arts, archaeology, literature, ice hockey. He was a Presbyterian elder who was steeped in Buddhism and Judaism. He was elite but never elitist.
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"Noël and Gertie' at the Walnut's Independence Studio 3 (1st review)
A case of misery loving company
Noël Coward was a celebrated English wit and dramatist. Gertrude Lawrence was a legendary star of the musical stage. By most accounts, neither of them ever bored anybody. Until now.
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Picasso's early drawings, at the Frick in NY
Less is more: Picasso the draughtsman
Line— a relatively neglected aspect of his oeuvre— was always more important to Picasso than anything else. From his earliest academic exercises to the breakthrough of Cubism to the monumental neoclassic works of 1920-21 with which the show concludes, this is an artist who never ceases to surprise.
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Scot Borofsky at Jules Goldman Books
The newest art venue
Scot Borofsky's work varies from totally abstract imagery to abstract-with-traces-of-figurative motifs, always with nervous energy
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Panel discussion: The Orchestra's future
That Alice In Wonderland feeling, or: A 20-something at BSR's Orchestra panel
Why haven't my 20-something peers and I been to the Philadelphia Orchestra, especially when it so desperately needs a new generation of patrons? Broad Street Review brought seven panelists together last week to attempt some answers. They might better have asked: Why don't we read newspapers?
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Of AIDS and the Philadelphia Orchestra
The unsung heroes of the AIDS battle (not to mention the Philadelphia Orchestra)
What do scientists at big drug companies have in common with musicians at big orchestras? They're essential— and taken for granted. And what does that say about the rest of us?
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When choreographers talk (too much)
Here's what I meant to say…..
Why do choreographers engage in post-performance talkbacks to explain what they were trying to say? Why don't they let the artwork speak for itself?
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"DownBeat' magazine at 75
Jazz vs. religion? No contest
Sister John, my grimly serious music teacher, whomped my knuckles when I tried to imitate Harry James on trumpet. By contrast, Mahalia Jackson, Marshall Stearns and DownBeat Magazine introduced me to a world that still resonates today.
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