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Four premieres by Network for New Music
Networking at the Barnes
Network for New Music presented four premieres in a space that invited some of the informality Michael Lawrence advocated in his latest Broad Street Review post.
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Anti-Putin protests at the Metropolitan Opera: a response
Making a fuss at the opera
If it’s not okay to shout “fire” in a crowded theater, why is it okay to shout anything else that has nothing to do with the show?
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Ticciati and Spano conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra
Debussy and his devotees
While the cat’s away the mice will play — Debussy, in this case. Guest conductors during two weeks programmed three compositions by Claude Debussy and two that were influenced by him.
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Chamber arrangements of full symphonies
The fine art of downsizing
The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presented a pair of small-scale transcriptions that produced a large-scale impact.
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Peter Serkin and the Orion Quartet
On the edge of musical revolt
The Orion players considered the Haydn masterworks worthy of the same attention as the Reger and Schoenberg. Their playing effectively countered the tendency to hear Haydn as a lightweight compared to those who followed him.
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Reforming applause
The stuffiness of the modern classical concert must end, but the music must also be heard. Our best model would be rock performances in dive bars.
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Three chamber concerts
And the winner is....
The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and the University of Pennsylvania presented three chamber music concerts that deserve awards in three important categories.
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Valery Gergiev conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra
Three Russian war symphonies
Valery Gergiev brought three Russian war symphonies to Verizon Hall, perhaps to make a political as well as musicological point on his controversial current tour. As always, he brought novel ideas dynamically expressed, with particularly good results in Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony.
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Musicians from Marlboro II at PCMS
A taste of the surreal, and a "ghostly" presence
These consummate musicians artfully employed the spectral appearance of otherwise hidden connotations to achieve a postmodern surrealism which, rather than disturbing the composers’ intentions, added to the interest and intrigue of the works.
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'Oscar' at Opera Philadelphia
Is this how we treat our poets?
Oscar Wilde seemed the epitome of wit and decadence, but he spent two years in prison for loving “the love that dares not speak its name” and died poor and in exile. What makes us punish difference? And why are we still today mistreating people just because they’re different?
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