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Wister Quartet's "Summer Bits and Pieces'
Shorthanded in Fairmount Park
The Wister Quartet, reduced to a trio, responded by showcasing the overlooked talents of its three remaining members.

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How today's orchestras succeed
Earth to Philadelphia Orchestra: It's the Internet, stupid
While the Philadelphia Orchestra struggles in bankruptcy, many major orchestras around the world are flourishing. These “21st-Century orchestras” have seized the marketing and PR possibilities of the Internet in imaginative ways that have so far eluded the timid Philadelphians.
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Dolce Suono at Laurel Hill
High-level High Baroque
The Dolce Suono Trio manages a successful hop between 20th Century America and 18th Century Europe.

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Lenape Chamber Ensemble's 25th anniversary concerts
The evolving Western mind, in three pieces
For its 25th anniversary concerts, the Lenape Chamber Ensemble offers a quick lesson in modern sensibility: The line from Haydn to Dvorak to Shostakovich defines the ascent of individuality, self-consciousness and inner conflict in Western thought.

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"Pirates of Penzance' in Oregon
Hoisting the Victorians, Oregon-style
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, in its 76th year, has discovered new territory: Gilbert and Sullivan. In The Pirates of Penzance, the Festival demonstrates that lampooning Victorian assumptions remains as relevant as ever.
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Andrew Rudin's 40-year retrospective
Grand old man of new music
The new music composer Andrew Rudin has accumulated an impressive body of work for more than 40 years— not by imitating old masters, but achieving the same impact in his own way.

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The Crossing's 'Month of Moderns'
Kile Smith's music for the stoic heart
Kile Smith may be more comfortable with Christian texts, but his foray into Stoic philosophy displays all the inventive expressiveness that marks his Christian works.

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Chestnut Street Singers: American songs
New voices in town
A new chamber chorus satisfies the four basic requirements of good a cappella choral music: Strong voices, good harmony, close coordination, and astute selections.

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Henze's "Phaedra' by the Opera Company (3rd review)
Phaedra's big problem (and it wasn't onstage)
I would go back to see and hear Phaedra again in a heartbeat. But dozens of Opera Company subscribers, unjustly afraid of 12-tone music, let their seats go vacant.

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Philadelphia's Bach Festival
More Bach for your buck
Modern arrangements of Baroque musicians require scholar-musicians steeped in a tradition that died 200 years ago and blessed with creativity and taste. Philadelphia's Bach Festival provided an ample supply in a single packed weekend.

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