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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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Another first for the Philadelphia Orchestra
An orchestra program without an orchestra? Actually, yes
The Philadelphia Orchestra expanded its repertoire with its first performance of Fauré’s Requiem and five pieces that prove you can present an orchestra concert without an orchestra.
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A Sunday with AVA and Chestnut Street Singers
War and peace, music and politics
When you listen to music based on a religious or political text, to some extent you’re sharing the feelings of the people who believe in those words.
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Poulenc’s ‘Dialogues of the Carmelites’
What would Pope Francis say?
An uneven production revealed the limitations of Poulenc’s revered but sad French opera about the sufferings of nuns during the French Revolution.
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Two salutes to Louis XIV, musician
Oh, to be the Sun King's lute teacher
What’s the essence of French Baroque style? For me, and apparently for Louis XIV as well, it’s a combination of elegance and pleasure.
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