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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jean Langlais: An appreciation
The gems this composer and organist left behind, imbued with a distinctive harmonic language, should not be forgotten.
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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.
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Fred Ho: Another worker's remembrance
Fred Ho did not win his battle. His huge legacy, however, endures.
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Curtis Symphony at the Kimmel (1st review)
What did Tchaikovsky mean? (and other unanswerable questions)
Can we not hear the Pathétique simply as a symphonic composition in four movements without extra-musical connotations of any kind? Does it matter whether Tchaikovsky had an agenda in mind? Would it matter if he had spelled it out?
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The Takács Quartet performs at Perelman
Dwelling with the angels
The Takács Quartet, a frequent guest of the Chamber Music Society, performed the rarely-heard Shostakovich Second Quartet and the Beethoven Fifteenth, with two brief works by Anton Webern that proved a connection as well as a contrast.
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Listening to Lincoln: Dave Burrell's Civil War Concerts
An ear-opening musical evocation of a Civil War massacre
The feeling at this world premiere was akin to attending a musical salon in Paris and hearing a breakthrough work performed for a small elite audience: The room was small but filled with eager listeners. That is how great work often begins in the arts and sciences.
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The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia plays Schumann, Britten, and Haydn
The glories of the useless
Ignat Solzhenitsyn leads the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia through three examples of the useless, irrelevant, and un-metaphorical art extolled in two recent BSR essays.
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