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Temple University Concert Choir: Frank Martin's Mass for Double Choir
Contrasting expressions of the sacred
This youthful choir performed difficult scores with great skill and glowing voices. George Bernard Shaw bemoaned that “Youth is wasted on the young,” but these gifted and devoted singers remind us that such is not always the case.
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'La Bohème' at AVA
Tomorrow's opera stars today
The prestigious Metropolitan Opera National Auditions last week announced 17 semifinalists who will compete for the top prizes onstage at the Met on March 22. Not only were four of them resident artists at the Academy of Vocal Arts, three of them sang the lead roles in the AVA’s recent La Bohème.
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Lyric Fest: Kile Smith's 'In This Blue Room'
A dialogue between the sexes
Lyric Fest presented a Kile Smith premiere that raises an interesting question.
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Piffaro and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Viva the duke, viva the lute
Piffaro visited 15th-century Ferrara, and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presented its second foray into the art of the lute.
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Cristian Măcelaru conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra
Pastoral days and sleepless nights
Rising star Cristian Măcelaru led the Philadelphia Orchestra in a performance that was stronger on gusto than nuance.
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Strauss’s 'Ariadne auf Naxos' by Curtis Opera
The lady left behind
Love is, by turns, the human problem and its solution, and Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, in the Curtis Opera Theatre’s excellent production, shows its facets — and its extremes — brilliantly.
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Philadelphia premiere of Stephen Paulus's 'To Be Certain of the Dawn'
Toward healing our collective wounds
In recognition of two important anniversaries — the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps and the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Vatican II decree condemning anti-Semitism —the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia is premiering Stephen Paulus’s Holocaust memorial oratorio, To Be Certain of the Dawn.
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An odyssey through Philadelphia's lively music scene
From Schumann on marriage to Liszt on Jerusalem
An eight-day journey through the Philadelphia music calendar, with reflections on marriage and a stop at a Baroque theater.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra premieres Vaughan Williams's Fourth Symphony
Long time coming
Haydn and Beethoven never take second billing to anybody, but the long-delayed Philadelphia premiere of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s great and gripping Fourth Symphony was the centerpiece of this week’s orchestra concerts.
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Composing 'In This Blue Room'
Seagulls are everywhere. But when I see one away from the ocean, I still get this odd thrill, even though I know better. And so that’s why I put jazz chords into my song cycle In This Blue Room.
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