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Lyric Fest's "Music in the White House'
A White House variety show
Lyric Fest sampled the tastes of U.S. presidents, whose musical interests could be surprisingly sophisticated. In the process, “Music in the White House” inadvertently reflected another important aspect of American culture: our inherent cosmopolitanism.
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"A Scandal in Bohemia,' by Orchestra 2001
Sherlock sings
This new opera about Sherlock Holmes creates a true Holmesian atmosphere, obviously written by someone who understands the Holmes legend. Thomas Whitman's music ranges from workmanlike to inspired.
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Cleveland Orchestra plays Mozart and Shostakovich
Cleveland's odd couple at the Kimmel
With the Philadelphia Orchestra AWOL for the month of February, the visiting Cleveland Orchestra came to the Kimmel Center to pick up some of the slack. Conductor Franz Welser-Most has a habit of rushing fast passages and clipping end-phrases, but his reading of the Shostakovich Leningrad Symphony proved a crowd-pleaser.
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Sonata-form (Part 10): Mozart's brilliant move
Inside Mozart's brain on the day he changed the music world
The development section of the finale of Mozart's “Jupiter” Symphony ends with a move as brilliant as a Bobby Fischer chess combination. In the tenth installment of his series on sonata-form, Dan Coren contemplates this passage.
Astral's Saeka Matsuyama violin recital
Different times, different voices
A young violinist traverses 200 years of musical styles with the skill of a talented actor hopping through a series of costume changes and radically different characters.
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Live opera vs. high-definition screenings
Opera at the movie house: I love the Met, but....
Which is better: Live opera at the Met in New York, or a high-definition transmission at your local movie theater? Maybe that's the wrong question. Why not get the best of both worlds, as I do?
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AVA's "La Fiamma' (2nd review)
The good old days of witchcraft
The Academy of Vocal Arts presented three performances of Respighi's 1934 opera, La fiamma, that were a treat. Whether this rarely heard opera deserves to be added to the standard repertoire is another question.
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A few words about adventurous programming
So you want adventurous programming? (A reply to Beeri Moalem)
BSR contributor Beeri Moalem has issued a plea for more performances of new music. But the Western art music repertoire is essentially a huge library containing more than six centuries of music that no one can explore all of in a single lifetime. Two recent concerts offer cases in point.
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AVA's "La fiamma' (1st review)
Oh, those sexually repressed women
Ottorino Respighi as an opera composer? Yes, he wrote ten of them, and La fiamma, in a 75th-anniversary concert revival by the Academy of Vocal Arts, showed itself worthy of a place on the international stage.
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Christoph Eschenbach returns
Eschenbach returns— twice, with no hard feelings
Christoph Eschenbach, the former and (by some) lamented music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, returned to take over the city's symphonic January in concerts with the Orchestra and the Curtis Symphony. If he was trying to suggest what Philadelphia has lost with his departure, he mostly made his case.
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