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Choral Arts Society's Gesualdo program (2nd review)
Modern voices, Renaissance sins
Matthew Glandorf placed Renaissance Lenten music in context by juxtaposing it with modern artists like T.S. Eliot, Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten, and Dame Edith Sitwell.

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Orchestra-Ballet's "Pulcinella' collaboration (1st review)
What was PIFA thinking?
In a concert ballyhooed as an historic co-production of a ballet company and an orchestra, Falla's Three-Cornered Hat was performed complete, but without the dancing. Which begs just one question: Why?
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Choral Arts Society's Gesualdo program (1st review)
The 16th Century's answer to Roman Polanski
The Choral Arts Society's program based on the music of Carlo Gesualdo was daring, and not just because the composer was a triple murderer.

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Trio Camille and Buxtehude Consort
The artist as entrepreneur
Two musical go-getters, pianist Matt Bengtson and baritone John Fowler, enhance Philadelphia's musical life while creating opportunities for themselves and their colleagues.

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Contemporary music: Two concerts
After the revolution
Philip Glass and George Rochberg may have revolutionized new music, but their work seems almost mannered next to two younger composers who took advantage of their rebellion.

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Concert Operetta's "Carp' and "Galatea'
Here come the waltzes
Who introduced the waltz to 19th-Century European romantic theater? Guess again— it wasn't Johann Strauss.

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Curtis Opera's 'Cunning Little Vixen'
If we could talk to the animals
Janácek's The Cunning Little Vixen is so brimful with melodies and lush orchestration that it ought to be part of the standard operatic repertoire. Since that won't happen— philosophical allegories lack mass appeal—Curtis deserves our gratitude for reviving it.

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Tempesta di Mare's "Characters of the Dance'
Dancing, from Bach to Stallone
Tempesta di Mare combined a first-class Bach performance with a lesson in Baroque dance forms, not to mention a mysterious connection to Sylvester Stallone's Rocky.

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Astral Artists showcases Aaron Jay Kernis
Renaissance traps, successfully avoided
Aaron Jay Kernis finished his two-year stint as Astral Artists' first composer in residence with two spectacular pieces that starred a spectacular soprano.

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Orchestra 2001 plays Hindemith
Orchestra 2001's odd couple
Hindemith and folk songs? It's an odd juxtaposition, but the two halves created a thoroughly enjoyable Saturday night outing.

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