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MusicMusic Reviews

Frank Zappa’s prophecy
08.16.2008

Nicole Atkins on the cusp
08.16.2008

Two books on music and the brain
08.02.2008

Development sections (Sonata-form, Part 8)
07.12.2008

‘Evolution of Sound,’ a unique website
07.03.2008

The orchestra prima donna syndrome
05.25.2008

Sonata-form No. 7: Role of repetition
05.10.2008

WPRB: My favorite radio station
05.03.2008

The case for live classical music
04.19.2008

Three spring concerts to watch
04.15.2008


Prokofiev festival at Bard College
08.23.2008

Philadelphia Orchestra’s Mann roundup
07.26.2008

Philadelphia Harp Festival
06.17.2008

‘The Rest is Noise,’ by Alex Ross
06.08.2008

Drugs, sex and 'Mozart in the Jungle'
05.20.2008

Eschenbach’s mysterious failure
05.20.2008

Chamber Music Society with Mitsuko Uchida
05.17.2008

Classical Symphony plays Bernstein et al
05.17.2008

Orchestra’s ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ (2nd review)
05.10.2008

Chamber Orchestra: Mahler and Schoenberg (2nd review)
05.10.2008

ArtArt Reviews

For art’s sake, move the Barnes
08.26.2008

The Barnes Foundation rulings (Part 2)
06.10.2008

Anne d’Harnoncourt’s secret
06.03.2008

Latest ruling on the Barnes move (Part 1)
06.01.2008

The Barnes move: A fait accompli?
05.25.2008

The ‘Barnes method’ reconsidered
04.15.2008

Letter from Beijing
04.12.2008

Fumo and the Barnes move
03.15.2008

Chelsea on the cheap
02.26.2008

Montebello: The Met’s savvy elitist
01.15.2008


Yumiko Izu’s flowers in Woodstock, N.Y.
08.19.2008

Alfred J. Munnings at Brandywine Museum
07.29.2008

‘Yesterday and Today’ at Sande Webster Gallery
07.12.2008

Philip Guston at Morgan Library
06.17.2008

Richard Diebenkorn monotypes in N.Y.
06.08.2008

Red Grooms in Yonkers
06.08.2008

PAFA’s annual Student Exhibition
05.27.2008

Barbara Rosin’s Umbria landscapes
05.20.2008

Moore College Senior Show
05.06.2008

Senior show at West Chester U.
04.29.2008

TheaterTheater Reviews

In defense of Toby Zinman
06.03.2008

My problem with Toby Zinman
05.31.2008

What Spitzer could learn from Shakespeare
03.11.2008

Philadelphia as ‘Premiere City’
03.11.2008

Stoppard and the Wilma
03.01.2008

Jiri Zizka and Wilma’s ‘Ying Tong’
02.23.2008

On boycotting Greg Wood
12.04.2007

Roles for Philadelphia actresses
11.20.2007

‘Death and the Maiden’ and Duke U. lacrosse
10.20.2007

Barrymore Awards problems
10.06.2007


‘Rabbit Hole’ at Olney Theatre
08.19.2008

‘The Shape of Things’ at Plays and Players
08.12.2008

‘Shakespeare’s R & J,’ by Mauckingbird Theatre
08.09.2008

Laurence Fishburne as ‘Thurgood’
07.26.2008

Commonwealth Classic’s ‘Taming of the Shrew’
07.22.2008

‘Jamaica’ revived at the Prince
07.03.2008

‘Rwanda’ and ‘Rachel Corrie’
06.15.2008

InterAct’s ‘House Divided’ (3rd review)
06.10.2008

PTC’s ‘The Happiness lecture’ (2nd review)
06.10.2008

PTC’s ‘The Happiness Lecture’ (1st review)
06.08.2008

OperaOpera Reviews

The Met invades the movie house
04.12.2008

Angela Meade’s Met debut
03.25.2008

Frank Guarrera remembered
12.01.2007

Pavarotti vs. Carreras
09.15.2007

Peter Gelb: Fresh Air At The Met
01.05.2007

Why opera audiences boo
12.24.2006

Anna Moffo's unique appeal
03.18.2006

Yesterday's great voices, reconsidered
02.01.2006

My debt to Birgit Nilsson
01.16.2006

Opera confronts the survival question
01.01.2006


Opera New Jersey’s ‘The Merry Widow’
07.22.2008

‘La Traviata’ by Opera New Jersey
07.15.2008

‘Die Soldaten’ in New York
07.08.2008

Concert Operetta Theater’s ‘Naughty Marietta’
07.03.2008

AVA’s ‘La Traviata’
05.10.2008

Opera Company’s ‘Norma’ (1st review)
04.05.2008

Opera Company’s ‘Norma’ (2nd review)
04.05.2008

AVA’s ‘Kát'a Kabanová’
03.17.2008

Curtis Opera’s 'Ainadamar'
03.15.2008

Opera Company’s ‘Cyrano’ (4th review)
02.19.2008

DanceDance Reviews

The dancing orphans of Rwanda
07.20.2008

Searching for meaning in Meg Foley's ‘slip’
05.17.2008

Megan Bridge interviewed
04.26.2008

The power of dancers
12.29.2007

Ballet dancers as role models
11.06.2007

Return of Les Ballets Russes
02.24.2006

Anytown vs. Swan Lake
01.01.2006


Headlong’s ‘Hotel Pool’ in New York
08.19.2008

Ballet X: Female Choreographers
07.26.2008

‘In Memory of the Deathtrap,’ by Pink Hair Affair
07.08.2008

Kip Martin’s ‘Namja Yoja’ at UArts
06.17.2008

Pennsylvania Ballet’s two premieres
06.15.2008

Paul Taylor Dance at Annenberg
06.10.2008

Rebecca Davis’s ‘Darfur’
04.26.2008

Pennsylvania Ballet’s ‘Coppelia’
04.22.2008

Jeanne Ruddy’s ‘Obsessions’
04.12.2008

‘Right to Spring’ by Ballet X
03.29.2008

Cross-CulturalCross-Cultural Reviews

Discovering Dessau
08.23.2008

Olympic (and artistic) geeks
08.19.2008

Home design: My ideal kitchen
08.16.2008

Letter from Iceland
08.16.2008

A watershed election (not)
08.12.2008

Liberal arts, Balkanized
08.12.2008

Up against the Human Services bureaucracy
08.09.2008

Obama as a literary figure
08.05.2008

Lost in Lyon
07.29.2008

South America's 'Gringo Trail'
07.26.2008


Woody Allen’s ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’
08.26.2008

Herzog's 'Encounters at the End of the World'
08.16.2008

Mayakovsky and the Russian soul
08.12.2008

China’s ‘humiliation,’ reconsidered
08.09.2008

‘The Soloist,’ by Steve Lopez
08.05.2008

Jim Thompson’s ‘Golden Gizmo’
08.02.2008

Gastropubs: Five small wonders
05.27.2008

Pretensions of ‘Bigger, Stronger, Faster’
05.25.2008

‘My Father’s Game,’ by Rick Wilber
04.19.2008

Dining bargains
04.12.2008

Recommended SitesRecommended Sites Reviews

Recommended Blogs and Sites
05.30.2007


Editor's Notebook

Anger, Obama and Frank Zappa
08.23.2008

Beautiful women and natural law
08.12.2008

China’s ‘culture of humiliation’
08.05.2008

'Shane' in the computer age
07.05.2008

Orchestras and their 'comfort level'
05.27.2008

Hillary's final pitch to Pennsylvania
04.22.2008

Arts funding: Where I stand
03.29.2008

Bill Buckley reconsidered
03.04.2008

Is cooking an art form?
02.23.2008

Freeloading critics
01.01.2008

Letters

August letters: Olympics, music and the brain.......
08.26.2008

July letters: History of sound, baseball economics...
07.20.2008

June letters: Bodies, The Barnes....
07.04.2008

May letters: Sahara, Eschenbach...
05.27.2008

April letters: Live music, Hillary Clinton...
05.03.2008

March letters: Home as Art, 'Premiere City' ......
03.29.2008

February letters: 'Black Gold,' music critics...
02.26.2008

January letters: Beatles, Higdon...
01.27.2008

December letters: The '40s, 'Charlie Wilson'...
12.29.2007

November Letters: Roles for actresses, H.P. Lovecraft...
12.04.2007

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