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Mennonite singing

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord

You haven’t lived until you’ve heard 200 farmers sing chorales unaccompanied.

Michael Lawrence

Articles 2 minute read
Smooth yet resonant vocals. (photo credit: Steve Spadafore, sportography@excite.com)

Bobby Rydell at Marple Newtown Performing Arts Center

More than just an aging teen idol

Longtime Philadelphia-area resident Bobby Rydell’s career has been going strong for more than half of a century.
Robert J. Robbins

Robert J. Robbins

Articles 3 minute read
Chucho Valdés alone at the keyboard. (photo courtesy of Columbia Artists Management)

Chucho Valdés at the Annenberg Center

One artist's brain, heart, and hands

Chucho Valdés provides a meditation on the piano qua piano in a solo performance by a master of Cuban jazz.
Judy Weightman

Judy Weightman

Articles 3 minute read
Taylor Stayton as the noble Almaviva. (Photo: Kelly & Massa.)

Opera Philadelphia’s updated ‘Barber of Seville’

The barber gets clipped

Rossini’s Barber of Seville presupposes a society where women are repressed. Someone forgot to tell the producers of this misconceived 20th-century update.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 4 minute read

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A klezmer band with the clarinet front and center. (Image by Mitaskim, via Creative Commons/Wikimedia)

Astral Artists: Old World/New World

From klezmer to the cosmic

Astral Artists presents a concert that’s as American as pizza, with a tour de force for the clarinetist on their roster of promising young musicians.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 4 minute read

Philadelphia Orchestra’s season begins (second review)

Mountain views and a stormy Mozart

Each time he mounts a large-scale composition, our beloved Yannick shows his mastery of the expanded orchestral forces involved. If only Lang Lang exerted such (self) control.
Victor L. Schermer

Victor L. Schermer

Articles 4 minute read
Lang Lang: Here we go again.

Philadelphia Orchestra’s season begins (first review)

The grand and the grandiose

The Philadelphia Orchestra’s season opener featured Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 with a willful Lang Lang doing everything at the keyboard except playing the music, and Richard Strauss’s sprawling Alpine Symphony, which showed the Orchestra to much happier effect.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 5 minute read
Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett: The only problem is when they are singing together. (Sony Music Entertainment)

Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga

Tony and Barbra get a gimmick

Some popular singers cover the standards; others do unexpected partnerings. These albums, by two of the best singers in the last half century — Barbra Streisand and Tony Bennett — do both.
Armen Pandola

Armen Pandola

Articles 5 minute read
Di Wu: simultaneously ringing and reflective. (Photo © Sengzong Gan, via www.DiWuPiano.com)

The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia with pianist Di Wu

Youthful stars and might-have-beens

The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia opens its season with a program that sticks to a conventional format but varies it with two novelties.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 3 minute read
Stand up and sing

Choral Arts Philadelphia sings Rachmaninoff's 'All Night Vigil'

On the road with Choral Arts

Most of the singers in Choral Arts Philadelphia are unpaid volunteers, but they attack their job like pros.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 5 minute read