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Contemporary Philadelphia composers
A school for the unschooled
Seven Philadelphia composers demonstrate that you can have a movement without stifling individuality.
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Michael Brown Protest at the St. Louis Symphony
The sanctity of the concert hall?
Some were alienated by the Michael Brown protest at a St. Louis Symphony concert, although some (a minority) applauded. As for “terrorism,” what a luxury it is to live in America, as opposed to, say, Iraq, where one can apply that label to what took place in St. Louis and mean it.
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Mennonite singing
Make a joyful noise unto the Lord
You haven’t lived until you’ve heard 200 farmers sing chorales unaccompanied.
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Bobby Rydell at Marple Newtown Performing Arts Center
More than just an aging teen idol
Longtime Philadelphia-area resident Bobby Rydell’s career has been going strong for more than half of a century.
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Chucho Valdés at the Annenberg Center
One artist's brain, heart, and hands
Chucho Valdés provides a meditation on the piano qua piano in a solo performance by a master of Cuban jazz.
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Opera Philadelphia’s updated ‘Barber of Seville’
The barber gets clipped
Rossini’s Barber of Seville presupposes a society where women are repressed. Someone forgot to tell the producers of this misconceived 20th-century update.
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Astral Artists: Old World/New World
From klezmer to the cosmic
Astral Artists presents a concert that’s as American as pizza, with a tour de force for the clarinetist on their roster of promising young musicians.
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Philadelphia Orchestra’s season begins (second review)
Mountain views and a stormy Mozart
Each time he mounts a large-scale composition, our beloved Yannick shows his mastery of the expanded orchestral forces involved. If only Lang Lang exerted such (self) control.
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Philadelphia Orchestra’s season begins (first review)
The grand and the grandiose
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s season opener featured Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 with a willful Lang Lang doing everything at the keyboard except playing the music, and Richard Strauss’s sprawling Alpine Symphony, which showed the Orchestra to much happier effect.
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Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga
Tony and Barbra get a gimmick
Some popular singers cover the standards; others do unexpected partnerings. These albums, by two of the best singers in the last half century — Barbra Streisand and Tony Bennett — do both.
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