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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.
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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4 minute read
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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5 minute read
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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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Tan Dun's "Tea' by the Opera Company (1st review)
Never leave at intermission
The overload of abstractions and metaphors in Tan Dun's Tea sent many operagoers home early. But those who left missed out on the real rarity— even in opera— of the successful melding of total theater.
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Richard Goode/Jonathan Biss piano recital (2nd review)
This team is different
Yes, Richard Goode and Jonathan Biss conveyed the requisite precision. But it was the differences between them as artists that raised their recent duo piano recital to a higher level.
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Dylan at the White House
Dylan at the White House (or was that Shakespeare?)
At the recent White House concert honoring the music of the Civil Rights movement, Bob Dylan again provoked controversy by refusing to hop on any political bandwagon. That's the mark of great artists: They enlarge themselves and enrich their audiences by savoring the world's ambiguities.
