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Camilla Nylund as Salome, Alan Held as Jochanaan (John the Baptist). Photo by Dominic Mercier.

Strauss's 'Salome' in concert (1st review)

The plight of a seriously spurned lover

One of the most powerful of all operas, a 20th-century masterpiece, receives a memorable performance.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 4 minute read
The manuscript of Beethoven's "Grosse Fuge" was found in Wynnewood almost a decade ago.

The Daedalus Quartet and Ricardo Morales at the Perelman Theater

Music in a mirror

Beethoven's Quartet No. 13, with the original fugal ending, was the major work on a fine recital by the Daedalus Quartet that also included the premiere of Robert Capanna’s String Trio. With clarinetist Ricardo Morales, splendid as always.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 4 minute read
Cynthia Raim: A suspicious failure to age.

Musicians from Marlboro III

Conflict and integration

The Musicians from Marlboro bring a consoling message to conflicted souls and present a bravura performance by one of the master pianists who enrich Philadelphia’s musical life.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 2 minute read
Batiashvili: Lyric yearning, in a shimmering blue gown.

Orchestra Plays Barber, Bartók, and Bruckner

Three other B’s

Yannick Nézet-Séguin led the Orchestra in familiar Barber and Bruckner and unfamiliar Bartók in the season’s penultimate concert.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 5 minute read
Leonard (left), Phillips: Beyond male chauvinism. (Photo: Marty Sohl, Metropolitan Opera.)

Levine conducts ‘Così fan tutte’ at the Met

Welcome back, James

James Levine, returning to the Met after a two-year absence, led a performance of Così fan tutte that made us forget the plot’s silliness as we reveled in the music’s subtleties.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 3 minute read
The boys who risked accident and death

The Mendelssohn Club premieres Julia Wolfe's 'Anthracite Fields'

A Battle Hymn for the Industrial Revolution

The Mendelssohn Club premieres Julia Wolfe's Anthracite Fields, a hardheaded look at the relationship between the economic progress of the last two centuries and the sacrifices of the economic foot soldiers who made it possible.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 4 minute read
Lisiecki: An old soul at 19.

Orchestra’s Mozart celebration

Mozart’s odd couple

Two Canadians made an odd (albeit complementary) couple at the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Mozart celebration this weekend.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Articles 2 minute read
Jean Langlais at the organ of Sainte-Clotilde, 1958.

Jean Langlais: An appreciation

The gems this composer and organist left behind, imbued with a distinctive harmonic language, should not be forgotten.

Michael Lawrence

Articles 2 minute read
"Fireworks at Disneyworld," photo by Thomas Hawk, via Flickr/Creative Commons.

The Curtis Symphony Orchestra at the Kimmel Center (2nd review)

The grand passions of Penderecki and Tchaikovsky

The Curtis Symphony Orchestra ends its season with distinguished graduates and current students collaborating on a program that highlights intensely emotional music, old and new.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 3 minute read
Fred Ho: One of America's unique artistic voices. (Photo © Michael A. Schwartz)

Fred Ho: Another worker's remembrance

Fred Ho did not win his battle. His huge legacy, however, endures.
Joseph Franklin

Joseph Franklin

Articles 5 minute read