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Gilbert: An outsider breaks fresh ground.

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.

Robert Zaller

Oct 21, 2014 Articles 6 minute read

How about in the lobby? (Photo of the Kimmel Center by Wasted Time R, via Wikimedia)

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.

Robert Zaller

Oct 17, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

Mimi and the guys tackle Piazzolla's "Libertango." (Photo by Pete Checchia, courtesy of Dolce Suono)

Dolce Suono's 10th-anniversary celebration

Celebrating a phenomenon

Dolce Suono celebrates a nine-year history that illustrates a Machiavellian adage.

Tom Purdom

Oct 16, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

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.

Robert Zaller

Oct 13, 2014 Articles 6 minute read

More a living room than an auditorium: the Helen Corning Warden Theater at the Academy of Vocal Arts.

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.

Susan Gould

Oct 13, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

There’s more to Philadelphia composers than George Crumb. (photo by Becky Starobin, via georgecrumb.net)

Contemporary Philadelphia composers

A school for the unschooled

Seven Philadelphia composers demonstrate that you can have a movement without stifling individuality.

Tom Purdom

Oct 11, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

What would Brahms say? (Photo by Rebecca Rivas, via NPR.org)

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.