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Muti conducts Verdi's "Attila' at the Met
Muti to the rescue
Riccardo Muti is pumping new excitement into Attila, one of Verdi's weakest operas— which, like Muti himself, hasn't previously appeared at the Met.
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4 minute read
Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra' by Curtis
Barber's Edsel bounces back
The Curtis Opera has revived the Edsel of American operas, Samuel Barber's ill-fated Antony and Cleopatra. It's a welcome opportunity to reconsider a work that, despite abiding flaws, has too much musical value to ignore.
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7 minute read
Jurowski ignites the Orchestra (1st review)
The answer to the Orchestra's problems?
Maestro Vladimir Jurowski attracted a full house to the Philadelphia Orchestra and generated wild enthusiasm by the end. This charismatic young conductor could hold the key to the struggling Orchestra's future.
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2 minute read
Shostakovich's "The Nose' at the Met
What The Nose knows (and William Kentridge doesn't)
After 80 years, Dmitri Shostakovich's early satirical opera, The Nose, is at last getting its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera. The cast and orchestra perform with élan, but William Kentridge's overbearing production threatens to hijack the proceedings.
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5 minute read
Elaine Mack's "Black Classical Musicians'
Musicians who crossed the color line
Does classical music belong only to whites of European descent? Elaine Mack's interviews with black classical musicians, past and present, are at once inspiring and dismaying.
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3 minute read
Choral Arts Society sings Castaldo's "Ancient Liturgy'
Beyond religion, beyond language
Can the rituals of an obsolete religion teach us anything about the relationship between music and the classic Western religious texts?
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4 minute read
Solzhenitsyn in a chamber trio
Solzhenitsyn minus Orchestra
Playing piano in a trio (instead of conducting an orchestra), Ignat Solzhenitsyn's big revelation was the sensitivity and control he brings to chamber music.
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1 minute read
Three Finns and Liszt, by the Orchestra
A Finn's fresh take on Sibelius
The Sibelius Second Symphony is almost the Philadelphia Orchestra's signature piece, but visiting conductor Osmo Vänskä brought a refreshing perspective. The program also included the local premiere of Kalevi Aho's busy Minea, and a fine-tooled performance of the Liszt Second Piano Concerto by young French soloist Jean-Frédéric Neuburger.
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4 minute read
Jasmine Choi flute recital
Between East and West
The impressive young flutist Jasmine Choi explores the border between East and West and invades the empire of the Great Romantics.
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4 minute read
Reich, Glass and Bryars at Annenberg
Steve Reich, forever young
The Zellerbach's dry acoustics and a battery of mirambas and xylophones almost swamped the Philadelphia Singers' delivery of Steve Reich's You Are. And I loved every minute of it.
