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Network For New Music at World Café Live
Can poets and musicians get along?
The Network for New Music presented its first concert at the World Café, surrounded the music with a touch of the era of lung cancer and lengthy tirades against the restraints of middle class society.

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Orchestra's heavyweight Brahms Requiem
Awesome, yes. But what was Brahms trying to say?
Brahms's stirring German Requiem was performed with astonishing power by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Westminster Choir and two outstanding soloists director-designate Yannick Nézét-Séguin. Yet it raised questions of just how this work should be interpreted and performed.

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Ying Quartet at the Perelman
Three Slavs by four Asians
The Ying Quartet's recital offered a late work of the Tsarist era and a late one of the Soviet period. Plenty of history intervened between them, as the scores made clear, but Dvorák's Piano Quintet in A, Op. 81, which rounded out the program, made for a rousing conclusion, with pianist Menahem Pressler adding his special touch to the youthful ensemble.

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Dutoit and the Orchestra: Breathing easy
The case for self-effacing conductors
A conductor's pacing works best when the audience notices it least. Charles Dutoit's beat created a pace that's akin to breathing, as opposed to the unvarying tick-tock of a metronome.
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Met's new "Don Giovanni' in HD Live
Revolt of the peasants? Not just yet
In this age of complaints about “class warfare” and widening gaps between the “top one percent” and the rest of us, Don Giovanni takes on new meaning. But only two singers the Met's production seemed perturbed about the Don's debaucheries.

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Julian Rodescu: A life in the arts
The courage to take risks: Julian Rodescu's rich life in the arts
My late friend Julian Rodescu was a cellist who became an opera singer, a teacher who became an impresario, a Romanian who became an American, and a New Yorker who became a devoted Philadelphian. His talent opened doors for him, but so did his willingness to try new things and push new limits.

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Philadelphia Singers discover Mendelssohn's sister
The sister also rises
As composers go, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel may have been as talented as her brother Felix. The Philadelphia Singers reminded us that she deserves our attention.

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Heath Brothers: Vintage jazz at the Perelman
Good riddance to jazz clubs?
Even in their 80s, the jazz legends Jimmy and Tootie Heath still make terrific sounds together. They differ on just one issue: Does jazz sound best when served in clubs or in concert halls?
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Andrew Bird in Wilmington
Love me, love my sound equipment
Has technology changed the nature of musical performance? If a concert involves recordings, in what sense should it be considered a “live” performance?

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Classical Symphony's "likeable music'
Do I hear a saxophone?
Karl Middleman presented five pieces, including a world premiere, that prove the music of the last 70 years can be just as likeable as any divertimento penned by Mozart and Haydn.

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