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Handel's my frequent companionâ€” on my iPod.

Panel discussion: The Orchestra's future

That Alice In Wonderland feeling, or: A 20-something at BSR's Orchestra panel

Why haven't my 20-something peers and I been to the Philadelphia Orchestra, especially when it so desperately needs a new generation of patrons? Broad Street Review brought seven panelists together last week to attempt some answers. They might better have asked: Why don't we read newspapers?

Alaina Johns

Dec 06, 2011 Articles 6 minute read

Of AIDS and the Philadelphia Orchestra

The unsung heroes of the AIDS battle (not to mention the Philadelphia Orchestra)

What do scientists at big drug companies have in common with musicians at big orchestras? They're essential— and taken for granted. And what does that say about the rest of us?

Victoria Skelly

Dec 05, 2011 Articles 3 minute read

I gave Mahalia Jackson my dinner, and was amply rewarded.

"DownBeat' magazine at 75

Jazz vs. religion? No contest

Sister John, my grimly serious music teacher, whomped my knuckles when I tried to imitate Harry James on trumpet. By contrast, Mahalia Jackson, Marshall Stearns and DownBeat Magazine introduced me to a world that still resonates today.

Patrick D. Hazard

Dec 04, 2011 Articles 5 minute read

Another asset squandered: Ormandy vanishes down the memory hole.

How to save the Philadelphia Orchestra

To save the Orchestra, learn from General Motors

Just how many classical music lovers live in the Delaware Valley? Enough to make a difference for the survival of the genre, not to mention the Philadelphia Orchestra? Equally important, are the necessary tools available? I would answer yes on both counts— if only the Orchestra's bean counters would get out of the way.

Clarence Faulcon

Nov 29, 2011 Articles 5 minute read

Hazing scandal at Florida A & M's band

A great college band, if its musicians survive

Florida A & M is justly proud of its Marching 100 band, a famous innovator in band choreography. But a litany of hazing abuses suggests that here's another case of a campus organization that's become bigger than its school.

Maria Thompson Corley

Nov 28, 2011 Articles 4 minute read

Croft as Gandhi: Let the music transport you?

Philip Glass's 'Satyagraha' at the Met

Gandhi's humble philosophy (for $345 a ticket)

Mohandas Gandhi understood how to mobilize the oppressed masses against the elites of his day. Philip Glass's Satyagraha, for all its ethereal music and purported veneration of Gandhi, seems designed to alienate the masses while deliberately appealing to an elite niche audience.

Steve Cohen

Nov 27, 2011 Articles 5 minute read

Jurowski: Echoes of Ormandy and Bernstein.

Gardiner and Jurowski: Two period pieces (2nd review)

Authentic period pieces? Ain't no such thing

Sir John Eliot Gardiner led his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in an all-Beethoven program on period instruments, followed two days later by Vladimir Jurowski's magisterial reading of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony. That performance, too, had a period feel, but for quite different reasons.