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Marcantonio Barone piano recital
Barone's cast of keyboard characters
Barone's exceptionally vivid and smart playing pulled a diverse program together, with music that sprang to life as if the composers were all vivacious and engaging guests at a really good party (even if one or two of them might have had too much to drink).
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Lyric Fest's "Tchaikovsky: A Biography in Music'
He wrote songs, too
Lyric Fest again combines words and music to create a well-designed portrait of Tchaikovsky the man: a hard-working, troubled and not terribly likeable composer.
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Orchestra's odd couple: Brahms and Shostakovich
What Dutoit doesn't understand about Shostakovich (or Brahms)
There's nothing wrong with hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto and Shostakovich's 11th Symphony, as in last week's Orchestra performances. They just don't inhabit the same musical universe.
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Tan Dun's "Tea' by the Opera Company (3rd review)
Turandot meets The Ring
The music of Tea is both an aural and a visual delight, and the Opera Company's staging offered moments of flawless beauty. Alas, composer Tan Dun has been fiddling with his opera since its debut in 2002, and it's lost some of its subtleties.
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Bellini's "Sleepwalker' by Curtis Opera
Magnificent surprises
Curtis Opera's unstaged production of Bellini's The Sleepwalker featured terrific choruses and a first-rank soprano in Elizabeth Reiter. Would that some staged operas worked as well.
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Tan Dun's "Tea' by the Opera Company (2nd review)
The sound of water, wind and fire
I wouldn't go out of my way to see Tan Dun's Tea: A Mirror of the Soul for its story. But its music is tantalizing and provocative.
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Orchestra's new season (good news)
The Orchestra's good news (for a change)
The Philadelphia Orchestra's newly announced 2010-2011 season is the most attractive I have seen in years, a felicitous blend of standard repertory and new music.
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Dolce Suono honors Barber, again
Songs, souvenirs, and a winning premiere
Dolce Suono offers a reminder that Samuel Barber isn't a one-piece composer, along with a performance that proves That Piece is still worth listening to.
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Network for New Music tackles Darwin (2nd review)
Pictures at an evolution
A museum exhibit inspires five successful settings and a major work worthy of a major subject: Charles Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection.
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Network for New Music tackles Darwin (1st review)
The raw power of evolution
Take an exhibit of Darwin material at a small, erudite museum, mix with young poets and musicians, add an excellent new music ensemble, and you get some illumination about the complex nature of the theory of evolution.
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