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Bach@7 presents three pieces by Phillip Moore
The complexities of serenity
Bach at Seven places three modern pieces in dialogue with three pieces by Bach and demonstrates two great truths about music.

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Piffaro presents 'Mummers' Delight'
Songbirds and roasted birds
Piffaro looks at the more poetic side of the grand tradition of mummery.

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The Miró Quartet performs with Ricardo Morales
Perfection, twice
Ricardo Morales joined the Miró Quartet for a superb evening of music-making, concluding with Mozart’s great Clarinet Quintet.

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Piffaro brings back the music of Golden Age Spain
Don Quixote finds a voice
Piffaro is in the midst of preparing a major project, The Musical World of Don Quixote, which will give us a chance to experience what’s been in Don Quixote’s shadow all these years. The event will include concerts, exhibitions around the city, and a symposium at Penn.

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AVA's resident artists present 'Jubilate!'
The AVA does it again
The Academy of Vocal Arts once again presents a concert of sacred music that succeeds almost to the very end.

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Strauss's 'Capriccio' by Curtis Opera Theatre and Opera Philly
Words or music?
Which are more important, words or music? Richard Strauss debated the question — one that this critic faces regularly — in Capriccio, the final opera of his long life.

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Ruth Naomi Floyd at the Episcopal Cathedral
A unique and sonorous voice
Ruth Naomi Floyd sings with a great seriousness that made me quake a little in my seat

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The Philadelphia Orchestra performs Mahler's Eighth Symphony
Once in a century
The Philadelphia Orchestra brought back the work that made it famous, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, in a performance that marks their American debut of it 100 years ago.

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Tempesta di Mare: The Nations
A Saturday night treat
Tempesta di Mare conducts a happy journey through 18th-century national music styles.

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The Philadelphia Orchestra with pianist Helene Grimaud
The drama of Brahms
A clash of styles between pianist Hélène Grimaud and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin resulted in mesmerizing Brahms.
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