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Network For New Music: Composing for painting
If Thomas Eakins could carry a tune…
The Network for New Music asked three composers to create works based on paintings— and these composers actually did what they were asked to do.
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YsaÓ¿e Quartet at Perelman Theater
Three composers face the final curtain
The YsaÓ¿e Quartet, named for the Belgian violinist Eugene YsaÓ¿e, plays with exquisite refinement and sensitivity. Unlike the steak-and-eggs mishmash offered by so many concert programs, the YsaÓ¿e's combination of late and last works by Fauré, Bartok and Franck was thoughtful and suggestive.
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"The Loathly Lady' at Penn
Freud's riddle as musical comedy
What do women want? The Penn Humanities Forum recruits a world-class early music team for the world premiere of a musical comedy about an endlessly fascinating quest. It's a stimulating evening, albeit one skewed against men.
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Guitarist John Williams at Perelman Theater
The casual virtuoso
Some virtuosos are all about showing you how good they are. John Williams is just the opposite: He actually makes you forget just how good he is, because he never allows his technical virtuosity to overshadow the essential musicality of whatever he's playing.
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Classical Symphony's "Americans in Paris'
The birth of the world (and jazz too)
The Classical Symphony's music director, Karl Middleman, spotlights a fruitful combination: Paris and jazz.
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Carol Jantsch with 1807 & Friends
The tuba gets its turn
It's hard to resist smiling at the thought of a tuba playing the lead in a chamber piece. But Carol Jantsch, the Philadelphia Orchestra's new principal tuba, quickly proved she had come to produce music, not laughs.
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Tempesta di Mare recreates Madame Levy's Salon
Bach resuscitated (with a little help from the Jews of Berlin)
Tempesta di Mare visits the salon of a musically sophisticated Berlin lady who helped revive Bach and launch the career of her grandnephew, Felix Mendelssohn.
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Curtis Opera's "Wozzeck' (3rd review)
Who you calling atonal?
Alban Berg's opera, Wozzeck, gets a bad rap as being atonal, unmelodic and, therefore, inaccessible to most of the public. In fact Berg's passionate music matches the story perfectly.
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Jade Simmons: Life after Miss America
Is there life after the Miss America pageant?
Must a beauty queen be shallow? As a pianist and a crusader for Classical music among urban youth, concerts for autistic audiences and teen suicide prevention, Jade Simmons is just getting started.
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Curtis Opera's "Wozzeck' (2nd review)
A timeless world abandoned by God
The Curtis Opera production of Alban Berg's Wozzeck, the signature opera of German Expressionism, made the most of the cramped facilities of the Perelman Theater, with lead singers Shuler Henley and Karen Jesse in good voice and Mark Barton's lighting particularly accenting the brooding and anguished score. Georg Buchner's timeless story of a maddened soldier who kills the one thing he loves remains as relevant as ever.
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