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What van Gogh saw in a Mediterranean coastal town. “Fishing Boats on the Beach,” 1888.

Lyric Fest presents letters set to music

Be careful what you tell artistic directors

Lyric Fest premieres nine new songs in a program suggested by a talkative reviewer.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 5 minute read
An edifying recital: Isbin (left) and Leonard. (Photo via pcmsconcerts.org)

Isabel Leonard and Sharon Isbin in recital

A program of neglected gems

Sharon Isbin is the most esteemed classical guitarist in the world and Isabel Leonard is one of opera’s upcoming stars. They met as equals in an event presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 3 minute read
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: prayers from a concentration camp

Bach@7 presents three pieces by Phillip Moore

The complexities of serenity

Bach at Seven places three modern pieces in dialogue with three pieces by Bach and demonstrates two great truths about music.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 3 minute read
Uk stamp medieval mummers from folklore BS Rmusic 032216

Piffaro presents 'Mummers' Delight'

Songbirds and roasted birds

Piffaro looks at the more poetic side of the grand tradition of mummery.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 2 minute read

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Con brio: the Miró Quartet

The Miró Quartet performs with Ricardo Morales

Perfection, twice

Ricardo Morales joined the Miró Quartet for a superb evening of music-making, concluding with Mozart’s great Clarinet Quintet.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 5 minute read
Piffaro’s Joan Kimball, Robert Wiemken, and Priscilla Herreid tilting at windmills, Toledo, September 7, 2015. (Photo by Grant Herreid)

Piffaro brings back the music of Golden Age Spain

Don Quixote finds a voice

Piffaro is in the midst of preparing a major project, The Musical World of Don Quixote, which will give us a chance to experience what’s been in Don Quixote’s shadow all these years. The event will include concerts, exhibitions around the city, and a symposium at Penn.
Anne Schuster Hunter

Anne Schuster Hunter

Articles 5 minute read
“Zadok Anoints Solomon” by Cornelis de Vos (1584-1661)

AVA's resident artists present 'Jubilate!'

The AVA does it again

The Academy of Vocal Arts once again presents a concert of sacred music that succeeds almost to the very end.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 3 minute read
“Let her decide.” (Photo by Cory Weaver)

Strauss's 'Capriccio' by Curtis Opera Theatre and Opera Philly

Words or music?

Which are more important, words or music? Richard Strauss debated the question — one that this critic faces regularly — in Capriccio, the final opera of his long life.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 3 minute read
Add her to the list of Philly's musical greats. (Photo via ruthnaomifloyd.com)

Ruth Naomi Floyd at the Episcopal Cathedral

A unique and sonorous voice

Ruth Naomi Floyd sings with a great seriousness that made me quake a little in my seat
Victor L. Schermer

Victor L. Schermer

Articles 3 minute read

The Philadelphia Orchestra performs Mahler's Eighth Symphony

Once in a century

The Philadelphia Orchestra brought back the work that made it famous, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, in a performance that marks their American debut of it 100 years ago.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 5 minute read