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Astral Artists and the Chamber Orchestra spotlight the viola
All kidding aside
The accidents of the scheduling process produced two consecutive concerts that spotlighted the viola and proved, once again, that viola jokes are a baseless and vile calumny.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra performs Janáček and Mahler
To app or not to app
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s new real-time app may or may not be a good idea, but the real issue is the product itself, not the marketing efforts that surround it.
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Nézet-Séguin conducts Mahler (third review)
Could we all use a resurrection? Mahler thought so
Mahler weaves between grief and excitement throughout the symphony. There is no conductor better than Nézet-Séguin in working with these changes, and he is excellent with liturgical and choral music as well. So the last two movements proved to be glorious in his hands.
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Nézet-Séguin conducts Mahler (2nd review)
Mahler’s tortured world
Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony had nothing to do with Christ and everything to do with the tormented composer’s own yearning for a better life after this one.
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Yefim Bronfman at the Perelman
Adventures of the sonata
The three sonatas programmed by Yefim Bronfman in his Perelman Theater recital told a tale of an artist moving from classical assurance to anxious assertion to violent despair.
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Calvin Hampton: An appreciation
An American genius
Calvin Hampton dared to take musical chances. While the results are uneven, his better compositions deserve a place in the repertoire.
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The 'Klinghoffer' kerfuffle
How to respond to Klinghoffer
Censoring art has been an irresistible temptation since Plato’s time. It was a bad idea in ancient Greece, and it’s a bad idea today, as the kerfuffle over John Adams’s Death of Klinghoffer illustrates.
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Renaissance and Al Stewart at the Keswick
The renaissance of Renaissance
Both Renaissance and Al Stewart are certainly still best known for their work of four decades past, yet in their performance at the Keswick, they amply demonstrated that while time can leave its inevitable mark on an artist, well-crafted and expertly-performed work always remains unscathed.
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Nézet-Séguin Conducts Mahler (1st review)
From Walter to Bernstein to Yannick
Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, once a rarity, now faces the danger of becoming too familiar. Yannick Nézet-Séguin toned it down a notch, to good effect.
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Tempesta di Mare plays Praetorious and Bach
The songs of the cosmic bourgeois
Tempesta di Mare presents a Baroque concert that makes a good companion to the Charles Ives concert the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presented earlier in the same week.
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