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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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Unindicted war criminal to play at Mann Center
How low can the Orchestra go? Will you welcome, please, Condoleeza Rice!
No one seriously pretends that Condoleeza Rice is qualified to play the piano in public, much less with an orchestra that has played with Rubinstein and Horowitz. Her notoriety alone, as the Bush administration's prime enabler, has attracted the Mann's programmers.
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Listening to music: Aesthetics or psychology?
Right brain, left brain: How do you listen to music?
What constitutes beauty in music? How do the conscious and unconscious interact when we make aesthetic judgments? Is a Beethoven quartet in some way a more worthy experience than Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians?
New light on Beethoven's Fifth
The pedestrian truth about Beethoven's Fifth
Where do musicians find their inspiration? A letter from Beethoven to his musicologist second cousin Moishe Gunzburg, recently discovered in a closet in my West Philadelphia apartment, sheds new and startling light on the origins of the great composer's most famous symphony.
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New music and so-called music 'lovers'
So you call yourself a music lover?
Is it really true that most music lovers dislike "new music"? As a critic for the past 25 years, I can attest that new music is becoming more accessible, and its audiences are expanding. This is an encouraging development. It means that music lovers are opening their minds to the creative voices of our time.
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Papadakis memorial concert at Drexel
Muscular music for a muscular president
Konstantinos Papadakis eulogizing Constantine Papadakis? That's precisely what happened when the local Greek pianist performed a memorial recital in honor of Drexel's late president and his own namesake. The program consisted of works by Chopin and Barber, and was finely performed by a musician of outstanding sensitivity and intelligence.
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Piffaro's "Music From 17th-Century Spain'
Song and dance in Renaissance Spain
Piffaro mounts a song and dance variety show and places 17th Century Spanish music in a well-researched context.
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When musicians won't sit still
If Horowitz could sit still, why can't Alisa Weilerstein?
Musicians today are trained not just to play but also to “perform.” But excessive movement by a performer isn't merely a visual distraction; it can impede execution as well.
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