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Venice Contemporary Dance Festival
The Japanese and Austrian companies I observed at the Venice festival— and, for that matter, everyone else in the beautifully printed but intellectually dense festival book— ran amok in their quest to elucidate and titillate. We in the U.S. have already been there/done that.
Shoku, performed by Batik; Art of Seduction: Posing Project, Part B, performed by Liquid Loft. International Festival of Contemporary Dance. June 14-30, 2007 at
Shoku, performed by Batik; Art of Seduction: Posing Project, Part B, performed by Liquid Loft. International Festival of Contemporary Dance. June 14-30, 2007 at
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Lang Lang at the Mann
Yellow River is that rare item, a successful piece of democratic art. But Lang Lang’s histrionics are no substitute for the passion he should communicate through his piano.
Philadelphia Orchestra: Mozart Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major; Various China Air Suite, Yellow River, concerto for piano and orchestra. Lang Lang, piano; Long Yu, conductor. July 18, 2007 at Mann Music Center. (215) 893-1900 or
Philadelphia Orchestra: Mozart Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major; Various China Air Suite, Yellow River, concerto for piano and orchestra. Lang Lang, piano; Long Yu, conductor. July 18, 2007 at Mann Music Center. (215) 893-1900 or
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How to keep the Barnes in Merion
How to keep the Barnes in Merion?
Advice to Montgomery County
Montgomery County residents have belatedly wakened to the loss of the Barnes Foundation as a potential civic and artistic disaster. But what can they do at this late date? Plenty, suggests Scott Jefferys.
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Orchestra's second "East Meets West' program
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s second “East Meets West” program at the Mann explored more aspects of the musical interchange. But the Mann’s cavernous space requires a bigger tone than Midori produced on this occasion.
Philadelphia Orchestra: Ravel Suite from Mother Goose; Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major; Tan Dun Overture: Dragon and Phoenix from Heaven Earth Mankind; Debussy La Mer. Rossen Milanov, conduct
Philadelphia Orchestra: Ravel Suite from Mother Goose; Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major; Tan Dun Overture: Dragon and Phoenix from Heaven Earth Mankind; Debussy La Mer. Rossen Milanov, conduct
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National Gallery tour— Part 3
Continuing his idiosyncratic tour of the National Gallery, Andrew Mangravite wonders: What makes a painting Impressionist? ' If it looks Impressionist, does it matter that the artist didn’t set out to create an Impressionist work'
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Faces of War at Michener Museum
The faces of war, portrayed in two exhibitions at the Michener Museum in Doylestown, render stereotypical blood-and-guts images obsolete.
“Fire and Ice”: Works by Michael Fay; and “Soldier”: photographs by Suzanne Opton. Through Oct. 21, 2007 at Michener Museum, 138 S. Pine St., Doylestown, Pa. (215) 340-9800 or
“Fire and Ice”: Works by Michael Fay; and “Soldier”: photographs by Suzanne Opton. Through Oct. 21, 2007 at Michener Museum, 138 S. Pine St., Doylestown, Pa. (215) 340-9800 or
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Royal Ballet's "Swan Lake'
Anthony Dowell‘s production of Swan Lake proved the more cohesive of this month’s two Royal Ballet productions. Dowell orchestrates four brilliantly structured acts, lavishly full of iconic images, displaying the Royal Ballet’s mastery of narrative balletic storytelling.
Swan Lake. Royal Ballet production July 12, 2007 at The Mann Center, Fairmount Park. (215) 893-1999 or www.manncenter.org
Swan Lake. Royal Ballet production July 12, 2007 at The Mann Center, Fairmount Park. (215) 893-1999 or www.manncenter.org
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Royal Ballet's "Romeo and Juliet'
The Royal Ballet’s production of Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet travels so well that even handling last-minute flight delays and a heat wave on the final stop of its tour couldn’t dent the glorious classicism onstage.
Romeo and Juliet. Royal Ballet production July 10, 2007 at The Mann Center, Fairmount Park. 893-1999 or www.manncenter.org.
Romeo and Juliet. Royal Ballet production July 10, 2007 at The Mann Center, Fairmount Park. 893-1999 or www.manncenter.org.
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I feel bad about Nora Ephron
Ephron’s last book relies on schtick, reads like she wrote it over a weekend and reveals her to be, after all, just another foolish, wealthy 65-year-old Manhattanite who wishes she could turn back the clock and look young again.
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman. By Nora Ephron. Knopf. 160 pages; $21.95.
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman. By Nora Ephron. Knopf. 160 pages; $21.95.
What's in an art donor's mind?
When the spinster donated her collection to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, her intentions seemed crystal-clear. Then the Met's lawyers got into the act. A distant mirror for the debate over Albert Barnes's intentions?
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