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New works by Maneval, Levinson and DuBois
Three new composers and a thousand crickets
Three new works by Philadelphia composers added depth and zest to concerts that placed them shoulder-to-shoulder with music that has survived decades of scrutiny.
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Philadelphia Orchestra's Stravinsky concert
Stravinsky confronts the gods
Charles Dutoit reprised two strikingly paired and vividly contrasting Stravinsky masterpieces, in a program both intellectually and musically satisfying. Meanwhile, the Orchestra lost a key performer in clarinetist Ricardo Morales.
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In search of a forgotten composer
The world forgot, but I remembered
Why on earth is Alexander Gretchaninoff buried in central New Jersey? Why on earth am I searching for his grave? In some strange way, this obscure and forgotten Russian composer speaks to my own struggle to compose.
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Network For New Music: Debussy meets Japan
East meets West (again) and sound meets sight
Network for New Music contributed to the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts with a program that mingled music and visuals, Eastern and Western musical traditions, and novel instrumental combinations.
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Dolce Suono's French evening
Beyond nostalgia
Dolce Suono probed the music that underlies the French legend celebrated in the Philadelphia International Festival for the Arts. It also inadvertently provided a new slant on a Debussy sonata.
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French songs at Academy of Vocal Arts
We'll always have Paris
To recapture the spirit of French song in the age of Picasso, the Academy of Vocal Arts utilized paintings, film, live animals and genuinely idiomatic singers. One question: Why doesn't the AVA stage more French operas?
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Stravinsky and Shostakovich at the Perelman
Together at last
Pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn brought his fellow Russians Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich together for a rare conversation in a Chamber Music Society concert that also featured violinist Jennifer Frautschi and cellist Efe Baltacigil. They should speak more often, especially when given voice by musicians of this caliber.
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Chamber Orchestra's "Histoire du Soldat'
Puppetmasters of Paris
The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia presented Philadelphia's first full-dress version of L'Histoire du Soldat in 20 years— and the first to attract a decent audience.
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Orchestre National de France at Verizon Hall
The French impression
Is spring really as violent as Stravinsky imagined? Whatever— 98 years after its premiere, his Rite of Spring provoked not a riot but a standing ovation.
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A few suggestions for the Orchestra
To save the Orchestra, expand the audience
Balancing the books is a pointless exercise if the Philadelphia Orchestra's audience is eroding. Here are a few other questions and suggestions that might be more helpful.
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