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"Time Stands Still' in New York
Global terror, once over lightly
The playwright Donald Margulies likes to flirt with serious social issues. His trouble is, as Time Stands Still reminds us, that he isn't serious about any of it.
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Sam Shepard's "Ages of the Moon' in New York
A coupla white dudes sitting around talking
Ages of the Moon finds Sam Shepard in a meditative mood, ruminating on life, hilariously and painfully. His reunion of two aging Western geezers is classic American dramatic metaphor— a long day's journey into night if ever was one.
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McNally's "Golden Age' by PTC (1st review)
A very long night at the opera
In the backstage bickering of singers and composer during the opening night of Bellini's I Puritani, Terrence McNally has the raw materials for an intriguing drama. Unfortunately, McNally's Golden Age consists of more than three interminable hours of operatic name-dropping and hackneyed expository dialogue.
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Chamber groups and the Orchestra
Moonlighting sonatas: Our debt to the Orchestra
Two of our local chamber music groups present programs that serve as relevant reminders of our city's debt to the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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Guitarists Kaukonen and Bromberg at the Keswick
Pickin' on the blues
Two great guitarists revisit their musical roots in an evening of virtuoso finger-picking.
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Gregory Burke's "Gagarin Way'
Which side are you on?
Despite the intoxicating power of this play about a labor-management standoff, Gagarin Way shrinks from addressing critical questions, like the use of violence on behalf of a just cause.
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Black audiences and classical music
A cure for ailing orchestras: Consider the black audience
In theory, black people don't like classical music. It's a fallacious theory, as I can attest, but it often becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Now a visionary Philadelphia conductor is demonstrating that a classical orchestra can thrive by looking beyond racial stereotypes.
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Egon Schiele exhibit in New York
The hand of a master draughtsman
Egon Schiele obsessively depicted the human form in the more than 3,000 works he produced in his all-too-brief 28 years. No one since Rembrandt captured its truth with greater honesty and penetration.
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Pianist Robert Levin with the Orchestra
Inside Mozart's brain
Last weekend's unexpected treat was the pianist Robert Levin, a Harvard humanities professor endowed with the mind of a composer as well as a very entertaining teacher, who took the Philadelphia Orchestra's audience on an exuberant journey inside Mozart's mind.
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The Who across the generations
Adolescence revisited: My lifelong journey with The Who
For more than 30 years the legendary British band The Who has guided me through the vicissitudes of adolescence and adulthood. Now The Who is preparing to play the Super Bowl. Can I share my personal heroes with the rest of the world?
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