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Tempesta di Mare and 1807 & Friends
Do I hear a harpsichord?
Tempesta di Mare and 1807 & Friends inadvertently conducted an unplanned dialogue on a perennial question: How do you play Baroque music under modern conditions?
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Jeffrey Siegel’s ‘Keyboard Conversations’ at the Perelman
The second coming of Leonard Bernstein
Jeffrey Siegel is a rare bird in Classical music circles: A world-class pianist whose words speak as eloquently as his fingers.
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Lyric Fest salutes Benjamin Britten
A sensitive soul in peace and war
You can’t appreciate Benjamin Britten’s importance if you limit your listening to one or two types of music, as most of us do. You must listen to his major contributions to opera, choral music, orchestral music, art song and chamber music.
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How jazz rescued Classical music
The death and rebirth of Classical music radio
Thanks to deregulation, Classical music radio has struggled since the ’90s. But thanks to some shrewd managers at WRTI and an unlikely musical ally— jazz— it’s now flourishing in Philadelphia.
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Choral Arts celebrates Britten’s 100th
The people's composer
Benjamin Britten cherished the amateur choral and instrumental groups that play an important role in British social life. Choral Arts celebrated his 100th birthday with a concert that captured that spirit.
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Between composers and musicians
It’s all in the timing
A while back, some composers began writing exact durations, in seconds, over their musical notations. But timing is what musicians do. Take that away from them and you take the music away from them.
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Manfred Honeck’s Philadelphia debut
Fresh wind from Pittsburgh
The Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck has excited audiences from Vienna to Pittsburgh with his flashy renditions and dramatic gestures. This weekend Philadelphians caught the fever as well.
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Yuja and Yannick do Rachmaninoff
She’s young, she’s stylish, and she gets Rachmaninoff
Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto is one of the most technically challenging compositions in the piano literature. Yuja Wang transcended technique to reveal the very soul of the tormented composer’s music
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Orchestra 2001 and Network For New Music
91 years of novelty
The works presented at these two concerts spanned 91 years but were linked by a common interest in novelty, exploration and the relationship between words and music. The oldest piece looked peculiar in 1922 and still does.
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Joshua Redman Quartet at Annenberg
Everything you wanted to know about sax
Joshua Redman can hit notes you’d swear couldn’t possibly come out of a tenor sax. At the Annenberg Center, his post-bop incarnation delivered a tight and virtuosic 90-minute set.
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