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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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5 minute read
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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3 minute read
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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5 minute read
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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3 minute read
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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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3 minute read
Landfill Harmonic
Turning trash into hope
The story of the Landfill Harmonic is inspiring, but the question remains — what is the true value of music in these children's lives? Playing those instruments seems to have given some of them a sense of meaning and hope. But in the long run, does that matter when their adulthood will probably include little time for practice, doomed as most of them are to lives of picking up garbage?
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5 minute read
Three concerts by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
From the rage of Prometheus to the horn player’s lament
The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society crowded a busy week with concerts that presented a good sample of the variety hidden behind the chamber music label.
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4 minute read