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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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Orchestra's Vienna Festival: Haydn and Bruckner
New takes on old favorites
Despite a tendency to equate loud with exciting, Nézet-Séguin captivated a small but feisty audience with interpretations of Haydn and Bruckner that were sonorous, nuanced, and fervent.
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Anthony McGill with the Musicians from Marlboro
Clarinet plus three and four
The New York Philharmonic’s splendid first desk clarinetist, Anthony McGill, joined Musicians from Marlboro in a recital highlighting two masterworks of the clarinet chamber literature, the Brahms Quintet and Krzysztof Penderecki’s beautifully grieving Clarinet Quartet.
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Curtis presents Eric Owens and Friends
The intimate joys of nuance and finesse
A major star showed how to blend harmoniously with other singers when Eric Owens appeared with current students at his alma mater.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra's Vienna Festival
A melting pot that periodically boiled over
On its surface, Vienna seems to be the epitome of romance and good times. Underneath lies a troubling past that is recognized by Yannick Nézet-Séguin in a multifaceted festival.
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David Bowie: An appreciation
Celebrating the alien
Ziggy Stardust’s strange, androgynous appearance held a strong fascination for a teenager just beginning to realize how different he was in other ways. For me, as for most teenagers, music played a crucial role in building an identity, and David Bowie played an important part in my early search for self.
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