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In search of a forgotten composer
The world forgot, but I remembered
Why on earth is Alexander Gretchaninoff buried in central New Jersey? Why on earth am I searching for his grave? In some strange way, this obscure and forgotten Russian composer speaks to my own struggle to compose.
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Network For New Music: Debussy meets Japan
East meets West (again) and sound meets sight
Network for New Music contributed to the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts with a program that mingled music and visuals, Eastern and Western musical traditions, and novel instrumental combinations.
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Dolce Suono's French evening
Beyond nostalgia
Dolce Suono probed the music that underlies the French legend celebrated in the Philadelphia International Festival for the Arts. It also inadvertently provided a new slant on a Debussy sonata.
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French songs at Academy of Vocal Arts
We'll always have Paris
To recapture the spirit of French song in the age of Picasso, the Academy of Vocal Arts utilized paintings, film, live animals and genuinely idiomatic singers. One question: Why doesn't the AVA stage more French operas?
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Stravinsky and Shostakovich at the Perelman
Together at last
Pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn brought his fellow Russians Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich together for a rare conversation in a Chamber Music Society concert that also featured violinist Jennifer Frautschi and cellist Efe Baltacigil. They should speak more often, especially when given voice by musicians of this caliber.
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Chamber Orchestra's "Histoire du Soldat'
Puppetmasters of Paris
The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia presented Philadelphia's first full-dress version of L'Histoire du Soldat in 20 years— and the first to attract a decent audience.
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Orchestre National de France at Verizon Hall
The French impression
Is spring really as violent as Stravinsky imagined? Whatever— 98 years after its premiere, his Rite of Spring provoked not a riot but a standing ovation.
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A few suggestions for the Orchestra
To save the Orchestra, expand the audience
Balancing the books is a pointless exercise if the Philadelphia Orchestra's audience is eroding. Here are a few other questions and suggestions that might be more helpful.
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Orchestra confronts Berg, Mahler— and bankruptcy
A good night for music, a bad one for the Orchestra
Bankruptcy, once a moral disgrace, has become just another way of doing business. Or perhaps you thought the Philadelphia Orchestra was more than a business. This strategy may work in today's de-unionized business world; it works less well when the affected employees are not tool and die workers but world-class musicians openly coveted by other orchestras.
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Lyric Fest's Paris Festival
The Fest and the Festival
The Lyric Fest art song series made its contribution to the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts with a program it could stage at any time.
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3 minute read