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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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