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The "Times' picks the top classical composers
Of Top Ten composers lists (and two the Times overlooked)
The New York Times music critic Anthony Tommasini spent the past month compiling his list of the greatest classical composers, with suggestions he drummed up from hundreds of Times readers. BSR's critic Dan Coren disdains such gimmickry, of course. Except”¦
David Mamet's "Race' by Philadelphia Theatre Company (1st review)
What Mamet doesn't know about race (or the law)
Americans are overwhelmed by misunderstandings between blacks and whites, not to mention men and women. To soothe this national trauma, we need the healing power of”¦. criminal defense lawyers?
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Dolce Suono's new collaborators
New discoveries: An organist and a soprano
Dolce Suono Ensemble collaborates with an organist who understands the difference between art and megalomania, and a young soprano selected by a colleague with impeccable credentials.
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Alan Gilbert conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra
Taking nothing for granted
Alan Gilbert's guest appearance with the Philadelphia Orchestra combined two Philadelphia premieres with one of the all-time champions of the orchestral repertoire. Like Yannick Nézet-Séguin, he seems to understand how to reach today's music audience.
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"Suor Angelica' and 'Il Tabarro' by AVA
Justice for Puccini
Puccini's music, often taken for granted, is best displayed when his operas are performed with the instrumentalists on stage, as the Academy of Vocal Arts did in this double bill.
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"The Glass Menagerie' at Walnut's Studio 3
New light on an old Menagerie
Tennessee Williams's over-exposed Glass Menagerie is a play that cries out for parody. Yet director Bill van Horn and his four magnificent performers have stripped it of all self-indulgent affectation and melodrama.
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Philadelphia Orchestra's "Inca Trail' concert
Fresh air from very far south of the border
For one magical evening, the varied music of South America's Inca Trail spilled out of Verizon Hall and into the Kimmel's usually vacant lobby. Is his the long-awaited formula for breathing life into Philadelphia's underachieving cultural center?
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Lipkin plays Beethoven at Curtis
A veteran jockey riding a tough mount
Pianist Seymour Lipkin's technique is not what it once was, but there was still much to be culled from an artist who has devoted a lifetime's study to Beethoven's keyboard literature.
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Three "divas' do Ibsen and Wilde in New York
The odd couple: Wilde and Ibsen, perfect together
When would you ever expect to read about Oscar Wilde and Henrik Ibsen in the same review? Better you should ask: Why are you reading this review when you could be hopping on a train to New York to catch three lionesses of the English-speaking stage, one of them a man?
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"In the Heights' on tour
Sidewalks of New York, salsa-style
In the Heights is an innovative show based in the traditions of musical theater— sort of case of pouring new Hispanic wine into old Jewish, Italian or Irish bottles. Once poor immigrants try to improve their lives in New York City, with an upbeat end.
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