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Dolce Suono honors Barber, again
Songs, souvenirs, and a winning premiere
Dolce Suono offers a reminder that Samuel Barber isn't a one-piece composer, along with a performance that proves That Piece is still worth listening to.
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"Picasso and the Paris Avant-Garde' at the Art Museum (3rd review)
In the Art Museum's attic with Pablo
Curator Michael Taylor has unveiled, for the first time in recent memory, the astonishing range, depth, and quality of the Art Museum's Picasso holdings. But his show falls a few bricks short of an Anne d'Harnoncourt blockbuster.
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The vanishing art postcard
Where have all the postcards gone?
These days fewer art museums are offering postcard reproductions of artworks. Whatever the short-term economic reason, society— and the museums themselves— will suffer in the long run.
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"Picasso and the Paris Avant-Garde' at the Art Museum (2nd review)
So you like Picasso? Which one?
The Art Museum's Picasso show provides a fresh reminder that there's always something more to learn about 20th Century art, and especially Picasso. Must we either love or hate everything about this complicated man?
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The Barnes architects make their case
Marie Antoinette, call your office
Three architects appeared at Penn recently to talk up their design for the Barnes Foundation's new museum on the Parkway. The event, overlooked by the media, took special care to ignore the 800-pound gorilla in the room. It also raised a new question: Why abandon a building designed by Paul Cret for a project by Tod Williams, Billie Tsien and Laurie Olin?
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Network for New Music tackles Darwin (2nd review)
Pictures at an evolution
A museum exhibit inspires five successful settings and a major work worthy of a major subject: Charles Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection.
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Network for New Music tackles Darwin (1st review)
The raw power of evolution
Take an exhibit of Darwin material at a small, erudite museum, mix with young poets and musicians, add an excellent new music ensemble, and you get some illumination about the complex nature of the theory of evolution.
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Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air' (2nd review)
The American Dream meets the Angel of Death
Jason Reitman's Up in the Air is this year's Hollywood morality tale. It's a throwback to Preston Sturges and Howard Hawks— in short, a Depression-era film for our depressed times.
Up In the Air. A film directed by Jason Reitman, from the novel by Walter Kirn. At the Ritz Five, 214 Walnut St. (215) 925-7900 or www.landmarktheatres.com.
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Tan Dun's "Tea' by the Opera Company (1st review)
Never leave at intermission
The overload of abstractions and metaphors in Tan Dun's Tea sent many operagoers home early. But those who left missed out on the real rarity— even in opera— of the successful melding of total theater.
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"Picasso and the Paris Avant-Garde' at the Art Museum (1st review)
The revolt against the revolt
Picasso and his friends had one hell of an idea: to explode the image in analytic manner. But eventually, this show reveals, they had to pick up the pieces.
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