Music
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Tempesta di Mare's tenth birthday festival
Tenths for Tempesta's Tenth
For its tenth anniversary, Tempesta di Mare demonstrated that the Baroque repertoire is so rich and varied that you can assemble two meaty concerts even when you limit your selections with a gimmicky rule invented for a special occasion.
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Vox Ama Deus plays Beethoven
A new way to hear Beethoven
Why would a small ensemble like Vox Ama Deus take on two pieces normally reserved for major orchestras? For a very good reason, it turns out.
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Chestnut Street Singers and the "Midnight Sun'
Amateurs in the best sense
Philadelphia's newest volunteer chorus consists of 14 voices without a leader, a payroll or any accompaniment. This month they demonstrated that they're up to the challenge.
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Back to the future: Youth and the Orchestra
Back to the Orchestra's future: One musician's story
As the Philadelphia Orchestra's audience dwindles, much has been written about the need to reach out to young audiences. But how exactly does this process work? Let me demonstrate the long-range effect of vigorous youth music programs on a single individual: me.
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Mendelssohn Club sings Clearfield and Fauré
The sum of Andrea Clearfield's parts
Andrea Clearfield's ambitiously sprawling Tse Go La is the latest fruit of the composer's musical field trips to Tibet and by far the most substantial: a fantastic amalgam of cross-cultural influences.
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Opera Company's "Manon Lescaut'
A vocal and visual knockout
The title role of Puccini's Manon Lescaut taxes even seasoned professionals. With just three weeks' rehearsal, the student Michelle Johnson carried it off with aplomb. Sumptuous costumes helped, too.
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Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore' by AVA
Donizetti meets Mussolini
Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore is a melodramatic comedy about love. Nic Muni's current production sets the story in Mussolini's Fascist Italy, where the stakes are life and death, not to mention damnation.
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Lyric Fest: Three operas for children
Opera for kids meets
‘Anxious Parent Syndrome'
Lyric Fest, run by three mothers, opted for a riskier format for its annual children's concert, introducing its young audience to three famous but abridged operas.
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Orchestra 2001 considers Bali (2nd review)
Flash and substance, by way of Bali
Orchestra 2001's recent Balinese music and dance program combined flash with substance, and crowd appeal with enlightenment— a rare achievement.
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Curtis Orchestra plays Higdon, BartÓ³k and Brahms
The kids are all right
Jennifer Higdon, as much as any composer of her generation, has solidified the permanent significance of the American populist school, once led by Aaron Copland. Even from this youthful ensemble, her blue cathedral was rich and satisfying.
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