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Tempesta di Mare's "Messiah'
Messiah, without the Christmas haze
Tempesta di Mare presented a St. Patrick's Day reminder that there's more to Irish culture than green hats and beer-soaked rowdies.
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Thomas Lloyd's "Bonhoeffer' (2nd review)
A martyr's gamble (and a composer's too)
Thomas Lloyd calls his Bonhoeffer a “choral theater piece,” which is exactly right. It's 70 minutes of choral singing, but this tribute to a World War II martyr doesn't present itself as a choir performance. Watching it is like watching an elaborate church service play out.
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Harumi Hanafusa with the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra
A shaman, a Frenchman, and a mythical city
The Japanese pianist Harumi Hanafusa, a welcome addition to the New York cultural scene, brought two very different concertos to her Pace University performance with the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra: Ravel's familiar Concerto in G and Akira Nichimura's A Shaman, in its debut.
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A moment of crisis at the Orchestra (3rd comment)
One night at the Orchestra: A community and a crisis
Something unusual occurred at Saturday night's Philadelphia Orchestra concert, apparently unnoticed by local music critics. On the surface it had nothing to do with the music. But maybe it did.
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The Crossing's disappointing "Bonhoeffer' (1st review)
A heroic martyr who deserved better
The Crossing premiered a disappointing work on a promising subject: A theologian who sacrificed his life by opposing Hitler.
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Dohnányi conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra (2nd review)
The youth of an octogenarian
How do you save a modern orchestra? Restoring public education is the first step. Then, can the gimmicks and play great music as well as conductor Christoph von Dohnányi and soloist Rudolf Buchbinder did this past weekend.
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Dohnányi, the "non-Yannick' (1st review)
The return of ‘old school' conducting
Amid the well-deserved hoopla over Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Christoph von Dohnányi reminded Philadelphia audiences why many musicians venerated an old-fashioned Central European conductor like Wolfgang Sawallisch.
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Wagner's "Parsifal' at the Met
No country for wise men
Wagner's Parsifal may lack much in the way of a story or singable tunes, but the new Metropolitan Opera production exquisitely captures the spirit of holy Christian reverence that lies at its heart.
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Yannick at cruising speed (2nd review)
Memo to Yannick: You're my man, but please skip the gimmicks
I now await Yannick's Philadelphia Orchestra concerts with the same anticipation I felt for Leonard Bernstein in 1960. But were those visuals and the trapeze act grafted on to Le Sacre du Printemps really necessary?
Across 500 years: Piffaro teams with Orchestra 2001 (1st review)
Old wine in new bottles (and vice versa)
Although five centuries separate their music, Piffaro and Orchestra 2001 mounted a joint concert that celebrated two of Philadelphia's happiest cultural developments of the last 40 years.
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