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The East Coast premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s 'Cold Mountain' (second review)
From epic novel to operatic realization
Cold Mountain manages to retain enough of the grandiose proportions of plot, effects, and setting to satisfy the opera buffs while — largely though the words and music — a more humble humanity comes through.
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Vladimir Jurowski conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra
The one who got away
Guest conductor Vladimir Jurowski led the orchestra in a varied and challenging program that drew from it some of its best playing in years.
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Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble and Fine Art Music Company
Small but necessary
Philadelphia’s local music groups may be small, but they all have special strengths.
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The East Coast premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s 'Cold Mountain' (1st review)
An intimate musical story
A second look at Cold Mountain reveals intimate aspects. In other words, the mountain thaws out when you approach it from a different perspective.
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'L’amore de tre re' by the Academy of Vocal Arts
The AVA exhumes a buried treasure
There are reasons why L’amore de tre re was neglected for half a century, but its merits override those reasons. The AVA production performed a needed service.
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PCMS presents the Emerson Quartet
After 40 years, still on top of their game
The Emerson Quartet, still one of the world’s best, plays now with maturity as well as drive. Its annual Philadelphia performance gave us works of two Romantic masters taken all too young, as well as a modern one who experienced the horrors of his age.
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Bach@7 presents new works by Rimple and Edwards
Bach@7 goes Lutheran
Bach@7 tries a new venue and puts on an intercontinental show.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra’s final Vienna concert (second review)
Romance with a touch of class
This Philadelphia Orchestra concert succeeded so admirably because all the musicians were on the same page. They embodied a fundamental idea that romance and boundaries, emotion and structure, are reconcilable opposites that, under the right circumstances, attract. The composers put this idea down on paper, and the musicians executed it in real time.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra’s final Vienna concert
A few words about human chemistry
How exactly does good chemistry manifest itself in an orchestra? The Philadelphia Orchestra’s final Music of Vienna concert got me thinking about the answers.
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A world premiere of 'Empty the House'
Secrets and regrets
Empty the House, a world-premiere opera composed by a Curtis Institute student, reveals the intimate secrets of a family.
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