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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

Oct 07, 2014 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

Oct 07, 2014 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

Oct 05, 2014 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

Oct 03, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

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

Sep 30, 2014 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

Sep 30, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

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Philadelphia Orchestra’s season begins (first review)

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

Sep 29, 2014 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.