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Mack: A tide finally turning?

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.
Maria Thompson Corley

Maria Thompson Corley

Articles 3 minute read
Castaldo: The words are irrelevant.

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?
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 4 minute read
Solzhenitsyn: Confidence of his vision.

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.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 1 minute read
VÓ¤nskÓ¤: To hear the old strangeness again.

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.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 4 minute read

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Choi: Floating lines, and one shriek.

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.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 4 minute read
Reich: Life-changing experience. (Photo: Wonge Bergmann.)

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.
Dan Coren

Dan Coren

Articles 6 minute read
Barone: World-class artist who stayed home.

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).

Articles 3 minute read
Fabiano: One style fits all?

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.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 3 minute read
Dutoit: Energy is no substitute.

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.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 6 minute read
Fu, Eichelberger: Wagnerian headgear.

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.

Lesley Valdes

Articles 3 minute read