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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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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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