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The spring opera season in Philadelphia
A plethora of operatic options
The 2014-2015 opera season in Philadelphia ends with an array of productions from many eras.
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Mary Elizabeth Bowden; David Crumb; Barbara Westphal & Christian Ruvolo
Celebrating Philadelphia composers
Three recent CDs highlight the music of composers with Philadelphia connections, from Samuel Barber to Andrea Clearfield.
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Tempesta di Mare closes their season
Baroque theaters and modern cathedrals
The music season ended with Tempesta di Mare’s latest visit to Baroque France and an unexpected bonus from Lyric Fest’s artistic directors.
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Opera Philadelphia's 'Yardbird' (first review)
A contradictory enterprise
Yardbird composer Daniel Schnyder went well beyond 1930s popular music (the legacy that Parker and cohorts unabashedly used as a foil to create the new bebop jazz) to create a unique synthesis of many other musical ingredients and flavors.
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Opera Philadelphia's 'Yardbird' (second review)
Bird Lives!
Yardbird is a profoundly moving and extraordinary musical experience that works on every level imaginable.
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Opera Philadelphia's 'Yardbird' (third review)
Ill-conceived hagiography
It’s possible to love jazz and classical music; I’ve done so for most of my life, as has Yardbird's composer. He created an intriguing combination of the two genres, but it has problems of another sort.
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Frank Sinatra: An appreciation
It was a very good life
This year, the world is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Frank Sinatra, who was born to make music using the latest media to bring his performances to the masses. Like all great artists, he was consumed by an ambition that knew no bounds — after mastering the media of his time, he went on to transform them into something no one could have imagined.
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Dolce Suono: Música en tus Manos
Trios and boleros
The Dolce Suono Ensemble bounced through a century of Latin-American concert and popular music, with a little help from some Philadelphia public school students.
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James Freeman, Alan Harler, and Margaret Garwood
Thanks for the memories
The music season ends with the retirement of two creative music directors and the death of a leading Philadelphia composer.
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On not knowing what to say
Memorial Day
Kile Smith considers becoming a composer by not trying to be important.
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