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Opera Philadelphia’s ‘Svadba-Wedding’ (2nd review)
A Slavic wedding with a feminist twist
Ana Sokolović manages to pack in a broad range of emotions in a brief package, with a bewitching combination of daring modernism and traditional Balkan folk music.
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Kile Smith reflects on a performance of his symphony
Hearing the right words
Kile Smith was worried about the first performance of his symphony in 12 years, but the concert went well, and the comments afterward were perceptive and kind; one comment in particular.
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'Svadba-Wedding' by Opera Philadelphia (1st review)
A Balkan bachelorette party
Composer Ana Sokolovic revisits the same material that Stravinsky did a century ago — a peasant wedding — but creates a different choral universe.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra Commissions
The flute and bassoon draw a cash crowd
The Philadelphia Orchestra adds two contenders to the sparse repertoire of woodwind concertos for large orchestra and proves, once again, that audiences are willing to pay good money to hear new music.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra premieres Tan Dun's 'Nu Shu'
Linking the centuries
The Philadelphia Orchestra presents a premiere that honors the past and links it to a future now being created in most of the world.
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Philadelphia Orchestra’s week of premieres
New faces, new sounds (and even new words)
Three premieres unveiled this week by the Philadelphia Orchestra satisfied the human need for inner nourishment and rational thought. Too bad audiences couldn’t hear all three works together.
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Dolce Suono’s 18th-Century entertainment
When musicians show their stuff
Dolce Suono combined a lesson in 18th-Century performance practice with a reminder that music ought to be a pleasure.
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Ned Rorem’s 90th at Curtis
A composer who cares about words
Curtis Institute celebrated Ned Rorem’s 90th birthday with a magnum opus that summed up a career devoted to the art of adding music to well-chosen words.
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The Met’s ‘The Nose’ in HD Live
The exuberant heyday of Russia’s avant-garde
From Gogol to Shostakovich to the South African director William Kentridge, the absurdist tale of a disembodied nose has survived as a refreshing reminder that laughter is the most effective antidote for government oppression, censorship and pomposity.
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Piffaro open its ‘Tudor Season’
Across the English Channel
(and into the office)
Piffaro opened a season-long sojourn in the Tudor era with a demonstration that Henry VII may have been a better composer than a husband. Meanwhile, Piffaro’s back office provided hope of better days ahead for Philadelphia arts administration.
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