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The pianist as collaborator
Musical collaborations can be intimate experiences. Like other intimate experiences, the result is ultimately more satisfying with give and take, and respect — the kind of respect that at least mentions your name and lets your face show up for a moment if you're performing with someone on YouTube.
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Delaware Valley Opera Company's 'Magic Flute'
A steampunk night at the opera
You don’t have to be a fan of opera or classical music to have a great time at the Delaware Valley Opera Company’s low-budget but thoroughly charming production of Mozart’s Magic Flute, in which opera meets vaudeville for an evening of fun.
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Russian Opera Workshop present Rubinstein's 'The Demon'
The Demon comes to Philadelphia
The Russian Opera Workshop presented the Philadelphia premiere of one of Russia’s most popular operas.
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On saying "thank you"
My dinner with Beethoven
Why do we say "thank you," and who do we say it to?
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Gunther Schuller: An appreciation
Gunther Schuller had more musical careers than Leonard Bernstein, including composer, conductor, educator, French horn player, author, and longtime advocate of the co-existence of jazz and classical music.
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Ornette Coleman: An appreciation
Time catches up to Ornette
Live long enough, as jazz innovator Ornette Coleman did, and it can help your public catch up to you — even to music like his, which was once well ahead of its time.
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The spring opera season in Philadelphia
A plethora of operatic options
The 2014-2015 opera season in Philadelphia ends with an array of productions from many eras.
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Mary Elizabeth Bowden; David Crumb; Barbara Westphal & Christian Ruvolo
Celebrating Philadelphia composers
Three recent CDs highlight the music of composers with Philadelphia connections, from Samuel Barber to Andrea Clearfield.
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Tempesta di Mare closes their season
Baroque theaters and modern cathedrals
The music season ended with Tempesta di Mare’s latest visit to Baroque France and an unexpected bonus from Lyric Fest’s artistic directors.
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Opera Philadelphia's 'Yardbird' (first review)
A contradictory enterprise
Yardbird composer Daniel Schnyder went well beyond 1930s popular music (the legacy that Parker and cohorts unabashedly used as a foil to create the new bebop jazz) to create a unique synthesis of many other musical ingredients and flavors.
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