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"Cézanne and Beyond,' at the Art Museum (1st review)
A master overshadowed by his followers
"Cézanne and Beyond” lets you in on a little secret—Impressionism's Lonely Man had his admirers. Based on the evidence at the Art Museum, the pre-eminent Impressionist painter apparently inspired many of them to outshine the master himself.
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One tenor's musical odyssey
Between black and Baroque: One adventurous tenor's musical odyssey
The versatile black tenor and musicologist Darryl Taylor has evolved from rhythm and blues to Classical to African American art song. Lately he's singing Baroque music written in the 18th Century for castrati. Can this one-man musical life force straddle several worlds without short-changing any of them?
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George Tooker retrospective at Pennsylvania Academy (2nd review)
What we hope people are really like
George Tooker's paintings work big themes often left to the realm of literature. Yet these works don't tell stories per se but rather evoke feelings. Ultimately, life painted according to George Tooker is one that offers hope.
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Brahms German Requiem by Chamber Orchestra (2nd review)
God's favorite agnostic
Ignat Solzhenitsyn leads a moving performance of a work that ventures into the deepest emotional areas of human life.
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"Blackbird' by Theatre Exile (3rd review)
Rules of the heart, rewritten
Scottish playwright David Harrower's narrowly constructed Blackbird puts two former lovers in a tight place from which neither can escape. The truth, as he suggests, doesn't always set one free, but sometimes only leaves people more hopelessly apart.
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George Tooker retrospective at Pennsylvania Academy (1st review)
Man with a (heavy-handed) message
Few artists can withstand a retrospective exhibition and emerge with their reputations intact; George Tooker is not one of them. After viewing more than 60 of his paintings and drawings since 1945, you are satiated, almost somnolent— which is too bad, because Tooker is an artist worth noting.
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Brahms German Requiem by Chamber Orchestra (1st review)
Another challenge for the Chamber Orchestra (it's called the Perelman Theater)
The Choral Arts Society's performance of Brahms's German Requiem was in many ways a cornucopia of musical riches. But the acoustics of the Perelman Theater made it as frustrating as it was satisfying.
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"Sizwe Bansi' vs. "The Rant' (2nd Reviews)
Two moral dilemmas, but only one resonates
Athol Fugard's Sizwe Bansi is Dead struck me as an outdated work of literary history. The moral dilemmas in Andrew Case's The Rant, by contrast, are awesome in their current relevance.
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"Blackbird' by Theatre Exile (2nd Review)
The power of human emotion (for better or worse)
Playwright David Harrower and director Joe Canuso have used a morally unconscionable subject to show the transcendent, universal power of human emotions, no matter how misguided they may be. It's a great theatrical moment about life's great dramatic moments when bitter enemies acknowledge the uniqueness of the experience they have shared.
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"Blackbird' by Theatre Exile (1st review)
Actions and consequences
We've barely scratched the surface of sexual exploitation of the young by their elders. All the more reason, then, to be grateful for the remarkable intelligence and sensitivity of David Harrower's intense and unsettling Blackbird, which examines the aftermath of such an affair with superb performances by Pearce Bunting and Julianna Zinkel.
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