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Rachmaninoff's "Aleko' by Russian Opera Workshop
A Rachmaninoff opera? Who knew?
No major American company in this country has ever produced Rachmaninoff's unfortunately neglected Aleko. Ghenady Meirson's Russian Opera Workshop offered a taste of what we've missed.
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Dolce Suono at Laurel Hill
Smiles of a summer night
Dolce Suono's “Concert by Candlelight” at Laurel Hill contained enough depth to repay close attention without disturbing a relaxed summery mood.
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Stokowski's lesson: Develop local talent
One more lesson Yannick can learn from Stokowski
The Philadelphia Orchestra began as an ensemble consisting of European immigrant musicians. Stokowski, Ormandy and Mary Louise Curtis Bok nurtured the infrastructure for developing homegrown talent and audiences. Boston and Los Angeles have learned that lesson; why not Philadelphia, where the idea first took root?
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Thomas Frank's "Pity the Billionaire'
Herbert Hoover or FDR? Playing the hindsight game with Obama
Thomas Frank's new book seeks to explain the resurgence of the Republican Party over the past four years in terms of the Tea Party phenomenon and its shrewd exploitation by Republican strategists. He is far less persuasive in accounting for the dissipation of the once-in-a-generation mandate Democrats seemed to have won in 2008.
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What I learned from whale watching
Captain Ahab, meet Charlie Manuel: Lessons of a novice whale-watcher
What do composers and conductors share in common with sea captains, farmers and Major League baseball managers? As I learned on my first whale-watching expedition, it‘s a certain fixity in the eyes that enables you to see things no one else ever noticed before.
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Concert Operetta does Victor Herbert
Grownups in Herbert-land
Lasting romantic love, Victor Herbert-style, may be a delusion. But it's a more useful delusion than many of the fantasies peddled by the arts these days.
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Yannick's homage to Stokowski (2nd review)
Stokowski's excitement, rekindled
At last weekend's Stokowski's celebration, the performances justified the palpable excitement. Yannick Nézet-Séguin has set the bar for the Philadelphia Orchestra very high indeed.
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Yannick's homage to Stokowski (1st review)
Yannick's Stokowski quandary: Showmanship or artistry?
In four memorable concerts this past weekend, the Philadelphia Orchestra's new leader, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, paid homage to the showmanship and musicianship of its late conductor Leopold Stokowski. He also demonstrated that he still has a thing or two to learn from Stoky.
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Stokowski's forgotten Youth Concerts
The maestro who listened to teenagers
Leopold Stokowski may have terrorized his musicians, audiences and board members, but he forged a genuine connection with teenagers that the Philadelphia Orchestra hasn't achieved since his departure.
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Muhly's "Dark Sisters' by the Opera Company
If gays can marry, why not…..?
Dark Sisters, a new opera based on a 1953 federal raid on polygamists, briefly raises a tantalizing issue but fails to explore it.
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