Music
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Susan Watts in Chestnut Hill
A fourth-generation klezmer tackles jazz
Klezmer, which is derived from the Hebrew word for “instrument of song,” refers not only to the Eastern European Jewish music idiom itself but also to the musicians who specialize in its performance. Susan Watts is certainly one of its foremost practitioners, now boldly expanding into klezmer’s distant cousin jazz, which shares many of klezmer’s defining attributes.
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Cellist Hai-Ye Ni conducts and plays with the Chamber Orchestra
An event for the record books
The principal cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra plays five concertos in one afternoon and takes on a bit of conducting while she does it.
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Tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Jonathan Biss
Songs of ecstasy and painful longing
Schumann's music explores the pain and ecstasy of love. Adding compositions by two later composers, Michael Tippett and Gabriel Fauré, served to illustrate the sea change in the pleasure/pain principle between Romanticism and Modernism.
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Gilbert conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra
Rare and well done
I’ve said it before, but the best orchestra programs are the ones that make you see how musical tradition evolves and reflects upon itself. This was one of them.
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When is it all right to interrupt a concert?
Protest is a right. But so is a legitimate expectation of enjoying a cultural event in peace.
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Dolce Suono's 10th-anniversary celebration
Celebrating a phenomenon
Dolce Suono celebrates a nine-year history that illustrates a Machiavellian adage.
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Philadelphia Orchestra’s Russian program
First impressions can be misleading
The Philadelphia Orchestra was in top form under Yannick Nézet-Séguin in an all-Russian program of works that were mangled and misjudged at their inception.
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Lyric Fest's Vienna: City of Song
Art song in the age of the living room
Lyric Fest recreated the homey atmosphere in which the great art songs of the 18th and 19th centuries were performed in their season-opening program, Vienna, City of Song.
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Contemporary Philadelphia composers
A school for the unschooled
Seven Philadelphia composers demonstrate that you can have a movement without stifling individuality.
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Michael Brown Protest at the St. Louis Symphony
The sanctity of the concert hall?
Some were alienated by the Michael Brown protest at a St. Louis Symphony concert, although some (a minority) applauded. As for “terrorism,” what a luxury it is to live in America, as opposed to, say, Iraq, where one can apply that label to what took place in St. Louis and mean it.
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