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Concert Operetta salutes Eddy and MacDonald
‘America’s Sweethearts,’ off screen
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald are remembered today as romantic movie stars, but they were flesh-and-blood people, as I can attest.
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Saved by rock ’n roll
No kidding: How rock expanded my musical horizons
It’s easy for a professional Classical musician like me to get stuck in a rut. Then rock music reminded me why I became a musician in the first place.
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Three things I try to learn from Bach
The power of embarrassment (and other lessons from J.S. Bach)
Bach’s music doesn’t grasp, rant or bemoan, because he has it already. But if it’s not your thing, he won’t storm the heavens or renounce the earth or curse you for your philistinism: He’s not going to change, just to find out what your thing is.
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Ayane Kozasa viola debut at Trinity Center
A dazzling viola debut (and that’s no joke)
In her Philadelphia recital debut, Ayane Kozasa transformed the ugly duckling of instruments into the belle of the ball.
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Orchestra plays Brahms and Berlioz (2nd review)
An experiment in the nosebleed section
Does music in concert halls really sound best in the balconies? Conventional wisdom thinks so. But is this notion fact or fantasy?
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Hélène Grimaud tackles Brahms (1st review)
Grimaud meets the gruff German genius
Johannes Brahms was a musical genius who never quite polished his rough edges. Hélène Grimaud gave his brawny first Piano Concerto a deeply poetic and thoughtful reading.
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Dover Quartet at the Perelman
Curtis scores again
The Dover Quartet’s musicians were just 19 years old when they formed at Curtis in 2008, and by appearance they still look like kids. Possibly because for them the music is so fresh, they seem almost effortlessly to take the listener immediately into the depths of the music.
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Tempesta di Mare and 1807 & Friends
Do I hear a harpsichord?
Tempesta di Mare and 1807 & Friends inadvertently conducted an unplanned dialogue on a perennial question: How do you play Baroque music under modern conditions?
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Jeffrey Siegel’s ‘Keyboard Conversations’ at the Perelman
The second coming of Leonard Bernstein
Jeffrey Siegel is a rare bird in Classical music circles: A world-class pianist whose words speak as eloquently as his fingers.
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Lyric Fest salutes Benjamin Britten
A sensitive soul in peace and war
You can’t appreciate Benjamin Britten’s importance if you limit your listening to one or two types of music, as most of us do. You must listen to his major contributions to opera, choral music, orchestral music, art song and chamber music.
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