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Tempesta di Mare presents Handel and His Frenemies
Sword fights and cultural politics
Tempesta di Mare provides the musical accompaniment to the backstage tensions between Handel and his contemporaries.
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The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society with the Aizuri Quartet and Ignat Solzhenitsyn
Two quintets with Haydn in the middle
The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society's season ended with both the rare and the familiar, including visits from the Aizuri Quartet and Ignat Solzhenitsyn.
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Dolce Suono Ensemble's 'The Americas Project' at Curtis Institute of Music
A musical journey through the Americas
The Dolce Suono Ensemble's 'The Americas Project' takes a musical trip through North, Central and South America, jet setting around the material with panache.
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Piffaro's Harmony of the Spheres: Music of the heavenly bodies by Renaissance composers
Harmonizing with the planets
Piffaro demonstrates that an outmoded theory can still produce magical art.
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An update on Tchaikovsky's 1891 visit to Philadelphia
It was 125 years ago today
David M. Perkins revisits Tchaikovsky, 125 years to the day that he first arrived in Philadelphia.
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OperaDelaware's rediscovered 'Hamlet' ('Amleto')
A long-lost Hamlet (Amleto) debuts in Delaware
Arrigo Boito was the musician and playwright famed for turning Shakespeare plays into operas, such as Otello and Falstaff, where he collaborated with Verdi. Now another of his Shakespeare adaptations has been rediscovered after being lost for a century and a half.
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Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia ends its 2015-2016 season
Three stunning premieres, two classics, one fine soloist
Three premieres by living composers, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with soloist Lana Trotovsek, and Mozart’s Haffner Symphony conclude the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia's season. Modern works were enthusiastically received, and Trotovsek brought out the beauty in the familiar Mendelssohn concerto.
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin concludes the Philadelphia Orchestra's 2015-16 season
The Philadelphia Orchestra's season concludes with a first and a last
Yannick Nézet-Séguin ended the Orchestra’s subscription concert season with performances of Rachmaninoff and Mahler. Now, what about his tenure as Music Director?
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Astral Artists and Bach at Seven get saxy
A saxfest and a rock apocalypse
Astral Artists and Bach at Seven explore the possibilities of the saxophone and the value of adding rock elements to a religious choral work.
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Philadelphia Orchestra continues its celebration of John Williams
John Williams, Beethoven, and Ravel, all in good company
'Star Wars' composer John Williams offers a blend of romantic feeling and contemporary verve in his Violin Concerto. The program opened with Ravel’s airy 'Pavane for a Dead Princess,' and continued with Beethoven's Symphony No. 7.
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