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"Vita Nuova' at Alice Tully Hall (New York)
Dante meets Alice Tully: An anti-composer's anti-opera
New York's renovated and reopened Alice Tully Hall is buxom and Botoxed, and there's padding too in one of its featured premieres, Vladimir Martynov's oratorio-cum-opera Vita Nuova, though some payoff in the end.
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Dolce Suono's search for the ancient Greeks
In search of antiquity
What did ancient Greek music sound like? We'll never know. But Dolce Suono took us on a worthy quest to provide an answer.
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Vienna Philharmonic at Verizon Hall (2nd review)
The odd couple: Lang Lang with the Vienna
The extremely well balanced Vienna Philharmonic is accustomed to shouldering a huge and diverse workload. But last week it assumed what struck me as a dispiriting assignment: playing second fiddle to the histrionics of piano virtuoso Lang Lang.
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Vienna Philharmonic at Verizon Hall (1st review)
An orchestra like a seamless bolt of cloth
The Vienna Philharmonic, in its first Philadelphia appearance in six years, showed again why it's in a class by itself among the world's orchestras in a program of Wagner, Chopin, and Schubert. Soloist Lang Lang, alternately brilliant and frustrating by turns, left a more mixed impression.
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Astral Artists' "Musical Tapestry'
Musicians who care about their audience
So you want challenging new music that's nevertheless comprehensible and digestible? Astral Artists' “Musical Tapestry” offered young musicians who are not only talented but also eager to recruit converts to their unusual repertory.
Curtis grads play Schubert trios
Young composer, young musicians— and grownup emotions
Three of Curtis Institute's most successful graduates of the past 20 years took on two of Schubert's best-loved trios in a concert that explained, among other things, why chamber music audiences tend to be older than Olympic swimmers.
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Opera Company's "Turandot'
A little more light on the subject
The Opera Company's Turandot boasts a pleasant tenor in Francesco Hong, an innovative director in Renaud Doucet and a colorful set borrowed from the Dallas Opera. Why, then, was the stage in near-darkness for much of the opera?
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Vertigo String Quartet at Curtis Institute
To be young and tackling mature masters
The youthful Vertigo String Quartet, all Curtis graduates in their mid-20s, returned to give an alumni recital in Field Concert Hall with one of their teachers, Steven Tenenbom, in a program of late Brahms and Shostakovich, followed by compositions by two of their own members. Already accomplished, this group should, happily, be with us for some time to come.
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One tenor's musical odyssey
Between black and Baroque: One adventurous tenor's musical odyssey
The versatile black tenor and musicologist Darryl Taylor has evolved from rhythm and blues to Classical to African American art song. Lately he's singing Baroque music written in the 18th Century for castrati. Can this one-man musical life force straddle several worlds without short-changing any of them?
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Brahms German Requiem by Chamber Orchestra (2nd review)
God's favorite agnostic
Ignat Solzhenitsyn leads a moving performance of a work that ventures into the deepest emotional areas of human life.
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