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Composing shortcuts
How do you write down an idea that can't be put into words?
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On playing the music of dead white males
I perform music by living composers on an ongoing basis, but I'd be very sad if I had to completely give up the dead ones.
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Three things I learned from Verdi
Whatever we believe the function of art to be, it can’t fulfill it until it entertains us.
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Piffaro at Eastern State Penitentiary
The Tudors drop in at Eastern State
Piffaro brought the ghosts of Newgate and the Tower of London to Eastern State Penitentiary — a timeless setting with acoustics that brought out the best in Piffaro’s instruments.
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Orchestra 2001: Four Views of Nature and Religion
Gunfire and birdsong
Orchestra 2001 presents a star-studded program with a valedictory look at its past.
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Opera Philadelphia's 'Don Giovanni'
The Wilt Chamberlain of the 18th century
Nicholas Muni’s new production shows how you can reinvent a classic, Don Giovanni, without changing its period or distorting its story.
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Strauss’s ‘Salome’ in concert (2nd review)
May I have this dance?
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s subscription concert season concluded with a lavish, semi-staged version of Richard Strauss’s Salome, mounted in collaboration with the Opera Company of Philadelphia. The two chief principals met the vocal and acoustic demands of the production triumphantly, but the Orchestra itself, led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, was the real star of the proceedings.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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