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The Orchestra's inane marketing
‘Unexpect yourself!' (And other inanities from the Orchestra's marketing department)
Against his better judgment, Dan Coren reads a mailing from the Philadelphia Orchestra. Looking for something new? Don't open this brochure!
AVA's "Norma' and "Trovatore' in concert
Bellini, Verdi and the difference
The recent Academy of Vocal Arts concert offered beautiful, professional-level singing with strong accompaniment by the AVA orchestra, conducted by the school's musical director, Christofer Macatsoris. It also provided inadvertent insight into the difference between Bellini and Verdi.
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Chamber groups and the Orchestra
Moonlighting sonatas: Our debt to the Orchestra
Two of our local chamber music groups present programs that serve as relevant reminders of our city's debt to the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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Guitarists Kaukonen and Bromberg at the Keswick
Pickin' on the blues
Two great guitarists revisit their musical roots in an evening of virtuoso finger-picking.
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Black audiences and classical music
A cure for ailing orchestras: Consider the black audience
In theory, black people don't like classical music. It's a fallacious theory, as I can attest, but it often becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Now a visionary Philadelphia conductor is demonstrating that a classical orchestra can thrive by looking beyond racial stereotypes.
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Pianist Robert Levin with the Orchestra
Inside Mozart's brain
Last weekend's unexpected treat was the pianist Robert Levin, a Harvard humanities professor endowed with the mind of a composer as well as a very entertaining teacher, who took the Philadelphia Orchestra's audience on an exuberant journey inside Mozart's mind.
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The Who across the generations
Adolescence revisited: My lifelong journey with The Who
For more than 30 years the legendary British band The Who has guided me through the vicissitudes of adolescence and adulthood. Now The Who is preparing to play the Super Bowl. Can I share my personal heroes with the rest of the world?
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Dolce Suono's Barber celebration (2nd review)
A composer with a foot in two camps
With a little help from three of Samuel Barber's protégés, Dolce Suono afforded a glimpse into the confluence of traditional and modern idioms that was Barber's hallmark.
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Met's "Carmen' — the HD theatrical version
Swept away by those movie close-ups
My reservations about the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Carmen were swept away when I saw the luscious Latvian mezzo Elina Garanca on a big movie screen.
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Orchestra tackles Mahler and Strauss
Romanticism's swan song
Replacement conductor Juanjo Maena performed the scheduled Adagio of Mahler's great but incomplete Tenth Symphony and Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs, but substituted mid-period Beethoven for mid-period Martinu. The results were mixed, with Strauss faring best but sluggish tempos marring the Mahler and Beethoven.
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