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Michael Woods is a former newspaper reporter and magazine editor who lives in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia. Today he is an investment manager with Mount Airy Investment Partners, Inc.
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| Schumann Trio’s debut |
December 15 2009 |
In its much-anticipated Philadelphia debut, the Schumann Trio demonstrated why three diverse and busy musicians have chosen to join forces.
Schumann Trio: Works by Mozart, Schumann, Bruch, Brahms. Presented by Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, December 13, 2009 at American Philosophical Society, 105 S. Fifth St.. (215) 569-8080 or www.philadelphiachambermusic.org.
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| Nézet-Séguin conducts the Orchestra (3rd review) |
December 11 2009 |
Claude Vivier’s Orion took me on a sprightly 13-minute tour of Paris. In the process, it managed to make Brahms seem tedious by comparison.
Philadelphia Orchestra: Vivier, Orion; Brahms First Piano Concerto; Franck, Symphony in D minor. December 3-5, 2009 at Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Broad and Spruce Sts. (215) 893-1999 or www.philorch.org.
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| Pianist Anna Polonsky at Fleisher |
November 28 2009 |
The pianist Polonsky brings a determined personality to the keyboard, and her attack is so concentrated, and so vivid, that at one point the rocking of her body brought a flashback of the New Wave band Devo to mind.
Anna Polonsky: Piano recital. Presented by Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, November 22, 2009 at Fleisher Art Memorial, 709 Catherine St. (215) 569-8080 or www.philadelphiachambermusic.org.
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| Psychology and the stock market |
August 29 2009 |
Stock market gurus may be passé, but Ralph Elliott was on to something: He perceived that, regardless of the business cycle, human nature moves in repetitive emotional progressions, from fear to optimism to greed and back again. Care to guess what “Elliot Wave Theory” says about the stock market’s current recovery?
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| George Romney's living portraits |
June 30 2009 |
Even after 200 years, George Romney’s portraits exude a freshness that has outlasted his more celebrated contemporaries. So many of his women are impeccably dressed and eminently respectable, yet their femininity seems ready to explode off the canvas at any moment.
Paintings by George Romney (1734-1802). On permanent display at Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gallery 278, second floor, 26th St. and Ben Franklin Parkway. (215) 763-8100 or www.philamuseum.org.
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| Two pianists: Polonsky and Podgurski |
March 17 2009 |
Pounding, pedaling and darting like quicksilver, the slender young pianist Anna Polonsky stole the show at her duet recital with cellist Peter Wiley. At the Art Museum, by contrast, the jazz pianist Neil Podgurski showed a different, quieter side with a new band.
Peter Wiley, cello, Anna Polonsky, piano: Works by Barber, Beethoven, Schubert, Saint-Saëns, Mendelssohn. Presented by Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, March 15, 2009 at American Philosophical Society, 427 Chestnut St. (215) 569-8080 or www.philadelphiachambermusic.org
Art After 5: Neil Podgurski, piano. March 13, 2009 at Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway and 26th St. (215) 763-8100 or www.philamuseum.org.
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