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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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4 minute read
The trouble with Verdi’s ‘Don Carlo’
Sympathy for a tyrant
Verdi's Don Carlo is an opera that’s better heard than seen. Because the unevenness of its dramatic line tends to undercut the beauty of the music, Don Carlo is worth attending only for the chance to hear vibrant voices — which, happily in this case, were mostly magnificent.
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7 minute read
The Philadelphia Orchestra plays John Williams
Time warps
Stéphane Denève’s program with the Philadelphia Orchestra was a mixed bag, stylistically and musically, with the lightweight John Williams thrown in with a Magnus Lindberg premiere and a Prokofiev masterpiece.
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Philadelphia Orchestra’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’
The wolf, defanged
At Saturday’s performance of Peter and the Wolf, narrator Michael Boudewyns unveiled an elaborate array of symbolic props in an effort to offer the audience something for the eye as well as the ear.
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Lyric Fest: 'I'll Make Me a World'
The world, with all its sorrows
Lyric Fest joined the Singing City chorus in a highly emotional portrait of the wonders and difficulties of human life.
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4 minute read
Takács Quartet at the Perelman
Music in its best and purest sense
The Takács Quartet, in its annual Philadelphia appearance, showed again why it’s one of the world’s best, a few tonal lapses notwithstanding.
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The BMI 'music spy' controversy
Paying the piper: Should music be free?
People were outraged to learn that BMI and other copyright protectors are sending "spies" to clubs and other live-music venues. Not too surprisingly, there's another side to the story.
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Curtis Presents the Dolce Suono Ensemble
From Barber and Rorem to Kramarchuk and Zhou
Dolce Suono presented the work of Curtis composers in eight pieces that sampled 91 years of musical creativity.
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4 minute read
Vox Ama Deus presents Bach's Mass in B Minor
The Grand Unsurpassed J.S. Bach Variety Show and Cabaret
Valentin Radu added a touch of informality to the annual Vox Ama Deus Good Friday concert.
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