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Tokyo String Quartet at Convention Center
The excellent Tokyo Quartet, like most brand-name chamber groups, has retooled itself over the years. Its two newcomers are actually the best musicians in the group, especially first violinist Martin Beaver.
Tokyo String Quartet: Haydn, Beethoven Shostakovich. With Lydia Artymiw, piano. Presented by Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, March 11, 2008 at Pennsylvania Convention Center, 13th and Cherry St. (215) 569-8080 or
Tokyo String Quartet: Haydn, Beethoven Shostakovich. With Lydia Artymiw, piano. Presented by Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, March 11, 2008 at Pennsylvania Convention Center, 13th and Cherry St. (215) 569-8080 or
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Curtis Opera's 'Ainadamar'
Ainadamar, "the fountain of tears," is a beautiful piece of music. But you must come equipped with some prior knowledge of the life and times of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca and the Spanish Civil War.
Ainadamar. Opera by Osvaldo Golijov; libretto (in Spanish) by David Henry Hwang; directed by Chas Rader-Shieber; Corrado Rovaris, conductor. Curtis Opera Theatre production March 14-16, 2008 at Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center. (215) 893-1999 or
Ainadamar. Opera by Osvaldo Golijov; libretto (in Spanish) by David Henry Hwang; directed by Chas Rader-Shieber; Corrado Rovaris, conductor. Curtis Opera Theatre production March 14-16, 2008 at Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center. (215) 893-1999 or
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Tempesta di Mare with puppets
Tempesta di Mare presents a half-successful attempt to create the spectacle of Baroque opera with puppets.
Tempesta di Mare Baroque Orchestra: Monteverdi, Il Combattimento di Tancredi e di Clorinda. Handel, Tra la Flamme; Marguerite Krull, soprano; Aaron Sheehan, tenor, David Allan Newman, baritone. Richard Stone, music director. Mock Turtle Marionette Theater: Doug Roysdon, stage director and master puppeteer. March 7-9, 2008 at Plays and Players Theat
Tempesta di Mare Baroque Orchestra: Monteverdi, Il Combattimento di Tancredi e di Clorinda. Handel, Tra la Flamme; Marguerite Krull, soprano; Aaron Sheehan, tenor, David Allan Newman, baritone. Richard Stone, music director. Mock Turtle Marionette Theater: Doug Roysdon, stage director and master puppeteer. March 7-9, 2008 at Plays and Players Theat
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Philadelphia as "Premiere City'
Here is an exciting answer to those urbanologists who worry that Philadelphia no longer makes anything. We can make new plays, every year, just the way we used to make railroad engines and Stetson hats.
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What Spitzer could learn from Shakespeare
New York’s moralistic Governor Eliot Spitzer turns out to have been a customer of a high-priced prostitution ring. How could that be? You’ll find the answer in Measure For Measure, not to mention Pig Iron's recent production of Isabella.
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'Cecilia Beaux' at Pennsylvania Academy
Cecilia Beaux was a society painter in a buttoned-up society. These vanished men and women stare out at us with all the seriousness of Roman funerary portraits. But Beaux, or at least her patrons, seems to have recognized the value of understatement.
“Cecilia Beaux: American Figure Painter.” Through April 13, 2008 at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Hamilton Building, 118-128 N. Broad St. (215) 972-7600 or www.pafa.org.
“Cecilia Beaux: American Figure Painter.” Through April 13, 2008 at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Hamilton Building, 118-128 N. Broad St. (215) 972-7600 or www.pafa.org.
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Pennsylvania Ballet's "Messiah' (2nd review)
So much of Robert Weiss’s Messiah rises and falls on the Messiah himself, and the audience couldn’t get enough of principal Sergio Torrado in the role.
Messiah. Ballet by Robert Weiss; music by George Frideric Handel. Pennsylvania Ballet production through March 9, 2008 at Academy of Music, Broad and Locust Sts. (215) 551-7000 or www.paballet.org.
Messiah. Ballet by Robert Weiss; music by George Frideric Handel. Pennsylvania Ballet production through March 9, 2008 at Academy of Music, Broad and Locust Sts. (215) 551-7000 or www.paballet.org.
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Pennsylvania Ballet's "Messiah'
If Christ and his disciples had looked and moved like Sergio Torrado and the Pennsylvania Ballet corps, Christianity would’ve been a no-brainer from the start, even for the Roman Centurions.
Messiah. Ballet by Robert Weiss; music by George Frideric Handel. Pennsylvania Ballet production through March 9, 2008 at Academy of Music, Broad and Locust Sts. (215) 551-7000 or www.paballet.org.
Messiah. Ballet by Robert Weiss; music by George Frideric Handel. Pennsylvania Ballet production through March 9, 2008 at Academy of Music, Broad and Locust Sts. (215) 551-7000 or www.paballet.org.
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Orchestra's "Eirene' and "Carmina Burana"
Music isn’t limited to the simple expression of feelings. And peace is just as dynamic as war— and much more complex. Willi’s Eirene, like Orff’s Carmina Burana, lets us see old subjects in a new light.
Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia: Tomasi, Fanfares Liturgiques. Ignat Solzhenitsyn, conductor. February 24, 2008 at Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center. (215) 545-5451 or
Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia: Tomasi, Fanfares Liturgiques. Ignat Solzhenitsyn, conductor. February 24, 2008 at Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center. (215) 545-5451 or
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Sonata-form (part 6): Mozart the juggler
In the sixth in his series of essays on sonata-form, Dan Coren shows how Mozart, in the course of riding his own piano concertos to fame and fortune, adapted the sonata-form exposition to his own dramatic ends.
