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AVA's "La Bohème'
A Bohème you can believe in
Everyone in the cast of AVA's La Bohème displayed youthful fervor and sang at a level equal to or better than what one sees in professional opera houses. Watch especially for soprano Na Li Youm, whose large yet intimate voice will take her far (even if she's too healthy-looking to play the consumptive Mimi).
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Opera Company's flapper 'Traviata' (1st review)
A flapper Traviata
The Opera Company of Philadelphia's latest production of La Traviata is set not in the repressed 1840s but in the Roaring 1920s. It's a first-rate production with two ideally cast new faces. But the anachronistic setting undermines the opera's timeless message about the individual's place in society.
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Variations on Beethoven's Variations, by Network For New Music
If Beethoven could do it….
Inspired by Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, Network For New Music called for 25 new variations from 25 present-day composers. The result certainly didn't sound like a single, cohesive work, yet it captured a range of drama, emotion and texture that honored Beethoven's model.
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The vanishing Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra: On Tour, or AWOL?
Other orchestras go on tour, but few vanish for a month at a time as regularly as Philadelphia's. You have to wonder if our great orchestra is considering a relocation to Tokyo.
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Grofe's lost "Café Society' rediscovered
Back to the '30s, for one afternoon
A missing piece of Philadelphia arts history was retrieved and revived when Philadelphia Sinfonia, a youth orchestra led by musical director and conductor Gary White, performed Ferde Grofe's long-forgotten Café Society.
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Philadelphia Singers and Bach Festival
Rachmaninoff meets a sticky challenge
The Philadelphia Singers apply their talents to a Rachmaninoff work that combines creative genius with one of the world's most appealing liturgical traditions.
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Roberto Diaz, master of the viola
Diaz: Something for the eye, too
At his recent recital, the violist Diaz made no effort to woo the audience with flashy movements. His demeanor provided appropriate visual backup nevertheless.
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Pianist Yuja Wang at Verizon Hall
Horowitz, move over
Pianist Yuja Wang is an old soul in a young body, a native of 20th-Century China who at the age of 23 has somehow channeled the emotions of 19th-Century European masters.
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Violinists Matsuyama and Kim
Funny— you don't look Scottish
Saeka Matsuyama and Soovin Kim: two violinists with impressive range.
Astral Artists: Bruch, Scottish Fantasy in E-flat Major. Saeka Matsuyama, violin; Symphony in C, Rossen Milanov, conductor. April 7, 2010 at Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Broad and Spruce Sts. (215) 735-6999 or www.astralartists.org.
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Art Museum's crowd control problem
Hip, trendy, free…. and hopeless
The Art Museum's free “After 5 on Fridays” concert series has become a popular way to start the weekend. So popular, in fact, that my wife and I left for fear of being trampled.
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