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'Peter Grimes' by Benjamin Britten at the Princeton Festival
A Britten masterpiece masterfully performed
The Princeton Festival offers a rare opportunity to see 'Peter Grimes,' a Britten masterpiece known for its accessibility and modern themes. It's an excellent production featuring many Opera Philadelphia and Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia members.
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Relâche season finale at the Penn Museum
Relâche parties like it's 1899
Phillip Johnston's and Erik Satie's scores and Relâche's skills match the frenetic action of René Clair and Georges Méliès's "strange little films."
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Flight of the Conchords at the Mann Music Center
They came, they saw, they Conchord
Flight of the Conchords brought their heavily accented comedy-folk-novelty act to the Mann; also, they brought a real live New Zealand cellist.
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Tom Purdom recaps his favorite chamber music premieres
May brings new growth in Philadelphia's chamber music scene
Tom Purdom recalls his top four premieres of this spring's chamber music season. New work was busting out all over.
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Tempesta di Mare presents Handel and His Frenemies
Sword fights and cultural politics
Tempesta di Mare provides the musical accompaniment to the backstage tensions between Handel and his contemporaries.
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The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society with the Aizuri Quartet and Ignat Solzhenitsyn
Two quintets with Haydn in the middle
The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society's season ended with both the rare and the familiar, including visits from the Aizuri Quartet and Ignat Solzhenitsyn.
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Dolce Suono Ensemble's 'The Americas Project' at Curtis Institute of Music
A musical journey through the Americas
The Dolce Suono Ensemble's 'The Americas Project' takes a musical trip through North, Central and South America, jet setting around the material with panache.
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Piffaro's Harmony of the Spheres: Music of the heavenly bodies by Renaissance composers
Harmonizing with the planets
Piffaro demonstrates that an outmoded theory can still produce magical art.
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An update on Tchaikovsky's 1891 visit to Philadelphia
It was 125 years ago today
David M. Perkins revisits Tchaikovsky, 125 years to the day that he first arrived in Philadelphia.
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OperaDelaware's rediscovered 'Hamlet' ('Amleto')
A long-lost Hamlet (Amleto) debuts in Delaware
Arrigo Boito was the musician and playwright famed for turning Shakespeare plays into operas, such as Otello and Falstaff, where he collaborated with Verdi. Now another of his Shakespeare adaptations has been rediscovered after being lost for a century and a half.
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