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Dolce Suono's Barber celebration (2nd review)
A composer with a foot in two camps
With a little help from three of Samuel Barber's protégés, Dolce Suono afforded a glimpse into the confluence of traditional and modern idioms that was Barber's hallmark.
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Met's "Carmen' — the HD theatrical version
Swept away by those movie close-ups
My reservations about the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Carmen were swept away when I saw the luscious Latvian mezzo Elina Garanca on a big movie screen.
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Mauckingbird's "Tru' and "The Threshing Floor'
Capote and Baldwin: Where's the beef?
Some one-person plays provide drama, but most devolve into lectures. Mauckingbird's current homages to Truman Capote and James Baldwin fall in the latter camp.
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Orchestra tackles Mahler and Strauss
Romanticism's swan song
Replacement conductor Juanjo Maena performed the scheduled Adagio of Mahler's great but incomplete Tenth Symphony and Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs, but substituted mid-period Beethoven for mid-period Martinu. The results were mixed, with Strauss faring best but sluggish tempos marring the Mahler and Beethoven.
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Dolce Suono's Barber celebration (1st review)
He did it his way
Dolce Suono and the Curtis Institute celebrated the 100th birthday of an odd kind of iconoclast—- an individualist who refused to enlist in the avant-garde.
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Eileen Goodman/Scott Noel at Gross McCleaf
Celebrating the sensuous
On the surface, Eileen Goodman's flowers and fruits have little in common with Scott Noel's nudes. Yet both artists unabashedly celebrate the sensuous.
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"Peter Pan' at the Arden
Is it true boys have more fun?
Douglas Irvine has apparently heard the Peter Pan story so often that he sees no need to dramatize the contrast between Edwardian London and the mythical Neverland. And without that conflict, the story loses its point.
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"Avatar' vs. "The Imaginarium'
Technology vs. imagination: The Avatar of Dr. Parnassus
James Cameron's Avatar dazzles us with expensive high-tech special effects. But Terry Gilliam's Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus dazzles us with the more substantive power of human imagination.
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Metropolitan Opera's new "Carmen'
Carmen's biggest challenge: Up against Franco's fascists
The Metropolitan Opera's new production of Carmen, set in fascist Spain of the 1930s, contains three outstanding elements: its Carmen, its Don José and its conductor. Their relative importance may well be in reverse order.
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Chamber Music Society's all-Schubert program
With a little help from Schubert's friends
For its all-Schubert program, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society had to replace two of its scheduled soloists. No problem, because that's pretty much the way Schubert himself got started.
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