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Composing vs. writing; Moalem vs. Coren (contd.)
A further exchange: The young composer and the older critic
Continuing their debate about composing music and writing about it, Beeri Moalem and Dan Coren find some common ground, and also some flaws in BSR as an appropriate vehicle.
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Composing vs. writing about music (a reply)
Composing music vs. writing about it: A critic replies (again) to Beeri Moalem
If I had Beeri Moalem's talent and vision as a composer and player, I wouldn't even bother to write about music. But when you're expressing ideas, you must accept a certain amount of responsibility for facts.

A composer's response
The young composer's struggle: A reply to Dan Coren
The young and opinionated composer Beeri Moalem responds to assorted nitpicks from BSR's critic Dan Coren, as well as to Coren's larger question: What, exactly, is the struggle of a young composer today?
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6 minute read

A dentist's musical Odyssey
A music lover's Odyssey: What my dad learned from his children
Most people develop a taste for serious music because their parents push them into it. In the case of my Dad the dentist, the opposite was true: He was introduced to classical music by his kids, albeit inadvertently.

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9 minute read

Buxtehude Consort's religious cantatas
The case for summer music
In the last few years Philadelphia's music season has grown steadily shorter— until this year. Half a dozen music groups extended their seasons into June, and the Buxtehude Consort made its debut in a perfect setting. Good news for tourists and musicians alike.

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3 minute read

Billie Holiday after 50 years
She never wasted a note: Music's debt to Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was less of a “pop star” (and much more of a true artist) than the likes of Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson. But I would argue that Billie Holiday deserves equal recognition as an icon of American music, and her legacy is timeless.

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5 minute read

Composing music: A reply to Beeri Moalem
So you want to write about composing? A critic's reply to Beeri Moalem
Dan Coren, responding to Beeri Moalem's recent article, “So You Want To Compose Serious Music?”, finds it “a mishmash of half-baked ideas and some very odd perceptions of music history.”

Something different: Ambient/space music
The music that dare not speak its name (because no one can pin it down)
Beethoven was inspired by Napoleon; now meet ambient/space music composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, who's inspired by Henry Ford. His genre is hard to define, but it can be challenging, inspiring, soothing, sometimes disturbing and often beautiful. And Philadelphia has become a center for this misunderstood innovative form of music.

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5 minute read
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Philadelphia Orchestra with Curtis soloists
Big names (of the future) at the Mann
Instead of big-name soloists at the Mann, last week the Philadelphia Orchestra spotlighted students from Curtis Institute. The collaboration must have looked like an attractive way to save money, but the product was by no means inferior.

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4 minute read

Concert Operetta's "A Waltz Dream'
The good old days of central Europe
Philadelphia's Concert Operetta Theater has evolved to the point where its offerings can be counted on for excellent singing and emotionally satisfying performances. This is quite an accomplishment for a genre once thought to have died with the monarchies of middle Europe.

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3 minute read