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How jazz rescued Classical music
The death and rebirth of Classical music radio
Thanks to deregulation, Classical music radio has struggled since the ’90s. But thanks to some shrewd managers at WRTI and an unlikely musical ally— jazz— it’s now flourishing in Philadelphia.
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Choral Arts celebrates Britten’s 100th
The people's composer
Benjamin Britten cherished the amateur choral and instrumental groups that play an important role in British social life. Choral Arts celebrated his 100th birthday with a concert that captured that spirit.
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Between composers and musicians
It’s all in the timing
A while back, some composers began writing exact durations, in seconds, over their musical notations. But timing is what musicians do. Take that away from them and you take the music away from them.
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Manfred Honeck’s Philadelphia debut
Fresh wind from Pittsburgh
The Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck has excited audiences from Vienna to Pittsburgh with his flashy renditions and dramatic gestures. This weekend Philadelphians caught the fever as well.
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Yuja and Yannick do Rachmaninoff
She’s young, she’s stylish, and she gets Rachmaninoff
Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto is one of the most technically challenging compositions in the piano literature. Yuja Wang transcended technique to reveal the very soul of the tormented composer’s music
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Orchestra 2001 and Network For New Music
91 years of novelty
The works presented at these two concerts spanned 91 years but were linked by a common interest in novelty, exploration and the relationship between words and music. The oldest piece looked peculiar in 1922 and still does.
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Joshua Redman Quartet at Annenberg
Everything you wanted to know about sax
Joshua Redman can hit notes you’d swear couldn’t possibly come out of a tenor sax. At the Annenberg Center, his post-bop incarnation delivered a tight and virtuosic 90-minute set.
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Opera Philadelphia’s ‘Svadba-Wedding’ (2nd review)
A Slavic wedding with a feminist twist
Ana Sokolović manages to pack in a broad range of emotions in a brief package, with a bewitching combination of daring modernism and traditional Balkan folk music.
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Kile Smith reflects on a performance of his symphony
Hearing the right words
Kile Smith was worried about the first performance of his symphony in 12 years, but the concert went well, and the comments afterward were perceptive and kind; one comment in particular.
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'Svadba-Wedding' by Opera Philadelphia (1st review)
A Balkan bachelorette party
Composer Ana Sokolovic revisits the same material that Stravinsky did a century ago — a peasant wedding — but creates a different choral universe.
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