Music
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PCMS presents pianist Juho Pohjonen
Piano perfection
Warm, seductive tonal colors and crisp, clean articulation characterized a solo concert by young Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen, who performed works by Rameau and Scriabin at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Linda Holt reviews.
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PCMS presents ECCO and pianist Shai Wosner
The color of music
Pianist Shai Wosner joined ECCO for a Philadelphia Chamber Music Society program that was as colorful to look at as it was to hear. Linda Holt reviews.
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The Richardson Chamber Players present ‘Clara Schumann at 200’
Absent no more
Among an abundance of male composers’ bicentennials, a world-class woman composer finally gets her due with a Princeton concert marking Clara Schumann’s birthday. Linda Holt reviews.
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The Crossing presents Gavin Bryars’s ‘A Native Hill’
Time without a calendar
The Crossing premieres a remarkable new work by Gavin Bryars, based on the words of a 20th-century farmer-philosopher. Gail Obenreder reviews.
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Ars Nova presents Moor Mother and Roscoe Mitchell
A pair of multiplicities
Ars Nova shatters the fabric of reality with a duet by Moor Mother and Roscoe Mitchell, part of its October Revolution of Jazz & Contemporary Music program. Aaron Pond reviews.
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The Delaware Symphony Orchestra presents ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
A symphony for the spheres
The Delaware Symphony Orchestra opened the season with a luscious concert featuring composer Missy Mazzoli, a Lansdale native. Gail Obenreder reviews.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra presents John Adams’s ‘Scheherazade.2’
Scheherazade’s future
John Adams led the first Philadelphia Orchestra performance of his ‘Scheherazade.2, Dramatic Symphony for Violin and Orchestra,’ a musical reimagining of ‘The Arabian Nights,’ plus works by Ravel and Stravinsky. Linda Holt reviews.
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Festival O19: Opera Philadelphia presents Handel and Cosgrove's ‘Semele’
The opera that wasn’t meant to be
Handel never intended for his oratorio ‘Semele’ to be staged as an opera. Opera Philadelphia’s muddled, inert production suggests why. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Festival O19: Opera Philadelphia and FringeArts present ‘Let Me Die’
When I am laid in earth
Joseph Keckler’s ‘Let Me Die’ examines opera’s preoccupation with kicking the bucket. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Festival 019: Opera Philadelphia presents ‘Denis and Katya’
Through a smartphone, darkly
The striking ‘Denis and Katya,’ part of Opera Philadelphia’s Festival O19, captures the existential dread of the social-media generation. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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