Music
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Philadelphia Harp Music Festival
Crowded program, empty pews
The Philadelphia HarpMusicFest presents able musicians playing attractive programs. All it needs is an audience.
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Philadelphia Singers' all-American concert
When composers confront technology
The Philadelphia Singers' new emphasis on American choral music wisely exploits conductor David Hayes's conviction and understanding.
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Yo-Yo Ma at the Kimmel (1st review)
Ma's middle-aged crisis, or: Brahms, where is thy sting?
Yo-Yo Ma delivered beautiful tone but neither bite nor flashes of anger in his confusingly bland Brahms. Brahms wants his Sonata No. 1 to both shout and whisper; Ma chose to sit comfortably somewhere in between.
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Yo-Yo Ma at the Kimmel (2nd review)
How an artist makes a difference
What force could nearly fill Verizon Hall to hear a cellist, even a great cellist, especially on a night when the Phillies were fighting for survival in the National League championship series?
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The Met's "Das Rheingold' in HD-Live (1st review)
Ready (at last) for your close-up, Herr Wagner
The Metropolitan Opera's recent HD-Live broadcast of Das Rheingold was a more successful realization of Wagner's dramatic and musical intentions than I could have ever believed possible. The overall result was gripping psychological drama in which Wagner's marvelous music operated subliminally beneath the action, just as Wagner intended.
Choral Arts Society's Salzburg Vespers
Mozart's Vespers, in their original setting
Matthew Glandorf embedded Mozart's Salzburg Vespers in the musical elements of an actual church service. In the process he offered a new look at an old favorite.
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Opera Company's "Otello' (3rd review)
Where's the terror?
The Opera Company of Philadelphia's production of Verdi's Otello was beautifully sung, staged and orchestrated. What it lacked was violence.
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Tempesta di Mare revisits Dresden
The glory that was Dresden, before the fire
Tempesta di Mare created a glimpse of an 18th-Century cultural center through music that has survived the defeats of the Seven Years' War and the bombings of the Second World War.
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Opera Company's "Otello' (2nd review)
Verdi vs. Shakespeare
The show went on without a serious hitch as the Opera Company of Philadelphia's Iago, Mark Delavan, sang from a wheelchair, serendipitously adding a new dimension to his otherwise invulnerable character. Verdi's Otello, unlike Shakespeare's Othello, is more archetype than flesh and blood; nonetheless he is an imposing figure in this, Verdi's finest opera.
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Dutoit conducts Grieg and Shostakovich
Strange bedfellows: Grieg and Shostakovich
Grieg and Shostakovich make strange bedfellows, but both the former's Piano Concerto and the latter's Fourth Symphony were well performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Andre Watts was the admirable soloist, and the Orchestra's departing music director Charles Dutoit seems intent on leaving his own legacy.
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