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Listening to Lincoln: Dave Burrell's Civil War Concerts
An ear-opening musical evocation of a Civil War massacre
The feeling at this world premiere was akin to attending a musical salon in Paris and hearing a breakthrough work performed for a small elite audience: The room was small but filled with eager listeners. That is how great work often begins in the arts and sciences.
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The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia plays Schumann, Britten, and Haydn
The glories of the useless
Ignat Solzhenitsyn leads the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia through three examples of the useless, irrelevant, and un-metaphorical art extolled in two recent BSR essays.
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Lyric Fest presents 'Dear March - Come In!'
A medley of female voices, genus Americana
Lyric Fest presents a musical variety show based on the highly individual voices of American women poets.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra plays Benjamin Britten
Britten and friends
Benjamin Britten hovers around the list of the greatest 20th-century composers without quite making the cut, but the somewhat belated centennial anniversary concert conducted by Donald Runnicles made a persuasive case for him.
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Victor Herbert’s ‘Cyrano’ and “Madeleine’
The Victor Herbert you never knew
Most of us associate Victor Herbert with sentimental ballads. Two of his forgotten operettas this week reminded us how diverse his work really was.
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Chamber Orchestra: Mozart and controversy
Old audiences and the young Mozart
Where are the young audiences? Did Mozart hate the flute? Was the young Mozart a genius or merely a talented prodigy? Arguing about music after a concert may be fun, but the performers usually get the last word.
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Artemis Quartet at the Perelman
Missing body report
Whatever else you may say about Beethoven, even at his most ethereal and refined, his is a music that speaks through the body. You don’t play him like Debussy or Fauré.
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When an autistic child enjoys performing
Making music with Malcolm
It wouldn't have occurred to me that my autistic son might want to appear in a musical, but he did.
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Solzhenitsyn plays Prokofiev
Prokofiev in deadly earnest
Prokofiev’s war sonatas are rarely played in the West. Russia itself seems at stake in this music, and there’s probably no living pianist who can play them better than Ignat Solzhenitsyn.
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