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Remembering B.B. King
All of B.B. King's humility, grace, and warmth can be heard in his playing and singing.
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The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society with Musicians from Marlboro
An entertaining evening with Mozart and Beethoven
The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society ended its 60-concert season with lighthearted entertainments by Mozart and Beethoven.
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The Chamber Orchestra's 50th anniversary
Fifty years and still going strong
The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia celebrated its first half century with a quartet of celebratory pieces — including a familiar item that isn’t normally considered celebratory and should be.
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Sarah Chang with the Philadelphia Orchestra
The woman in red
Violinist Sarah Chang dazzled in Dvořák as the Philadelphia Orchestra, under Măcelaru, brought youthful vigor to Beethoven and Eastern European favorites.
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The Academy of Vocal Arts presents Gounod's 'Faust'
A devil of a deal
A new generation comes to grips with the moral attitudes and the religious faith of an earlier time.
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Amerita, Network for New Music, and ARTCy
Dante and light, insomnia and Whitman
A veteran new music organization and a fumbling newcomer presented a quartet of premieres.
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Opera Philadelphia's 'Don Carlo' (second review)
A risk that paid off
Opera Philadelphia took a giant leap with its production of Verdi’s sprawling masterpiece.
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Philadelphia Orchestra plays Bernstein's 'Mass' (second review)
Music-theater or agitprop?
Is Leonard Bernstein’s Mass gospel music, classical, Broadway, or rock ‘n’ roll? Yes. All of those and more.
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Philadelphia Orchestra plays Bernstein's 'Mass' (first review)
Singin’ the liturgical blues
Leonard Bernstein’s Mass was, with 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the flop of his career. Its belated Philadelphia premiere, despite an elaborate production, showed why.
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Tempesta di Mare, Café et Catastrophe
A novel brew and a classic tale
Tempesta di Mare celebrated coffee and recounted a Greek tragedy in a recreation of an 18th-century French musical salon.
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