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The Philadelphia Orchestra with pianist Jan Lisiecki
Exploring the beauty and tumult of Vienna
The music in this concert of Viennese pastry reflected both of the faces of Vienna: It was romantically sweet but with a bitter crust. Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, while exploiting the rich sound of the Philadelphia Orchestra to bring out the grand sonorities, also conveyed Vienna’s underlying disturbances and tensions.
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PCMS presents the Orion Quartet with Richard Woodhams
Back from the break
Richard Woodhams joined the Orion Quartet for the Chamber Music Society’s first concert of the new year, which was varied and mostly satisfying but featured a Beethoven shorn of its edge.
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Luisi and Tetzlaff with the Philadelphia Orchestra
The rockstar reception of violinist Christian Tetzlaff
Conductor Fabio Luisi is an opera man and violinist Christian Tetzlaff has a singing tone, so their collaboration on the Tchaikovsky Concerto in D major was memorable.
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David Bowie and classic rock’s death knells
David Bowie's death gets Craig Peters thinking about how other rock greats have sung about the Ultimate Question.
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Meet Jeanne Krausman
A long musical life
She gave herself a “musical Bat Mitzvah” at 83, followed, at 85, by seven consecutive daily performances of a short living room recital. Jeanne Krausman was preparing for her final concert, at 89, when fate intervened.
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Three things I learned from David Bowie
Kile Smith accepts David Bowie's "serious moonlight" invitation.
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Pierre Boulez: An appreciation
Boulez est mort
Boulez infamously declared, in 1952, that “any musician who has not experienced — I do not say understood, but truly experienced — the necessity of dodecaphonic music is useless.” I have always relished his gleeful courage, his delight in the new, his call to push boundaries outward as a kind of artistic imperative.
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Natalie Cole: An appreciation
What set Natalie Cole apart from the other popsters trying to make like Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett was her depth, her sincerity, and her understanding of the lyric and where it came from — all of which came, in part, from her father’s example.
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New Year traditions: Orchestra v. Mummers
Angela Meade — practical joker?
On New Year’s Eve, the customarily sedate Angela Meade pulled two tricks from her sleeve. The Mummers Parade, on the other hand, remains an unintentionally profound testament to the futility of human ambition.
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Piffaro, Tempesta di Mare, and Choral Arts team up
The merging of the eras
Piffaro and Tempesta di Mare joined forces with Choral Arts Philadelphia and proved the Renaissance and the Baroque can cooperate.
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