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The Philadelphia Orchestra streams Samuel Barber and Florence Price
A Price premiere in Philly
The livestreaming Philadelphia Orchestra tackled Barber’s attractive but morose ‘Adagio for Strings’ and the Philly premiere of Florence Price’s serene but engaging Symphony No. 1 in E minor. Linda Holt reviews.

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PCMS presents a Beethoven livestream from Jonathan Biss
Blankets and Beethoven
Honoring Beethoven’s 250th birthday, pianist Jonathan Biss concluded a livestreamed PCMS recital with an inspired finale to the composer’s Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110. Linda Holt reviews.

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Opera Philadelphia presents ‘Cycles of My Being’
Songs for hope in Black America
Tyshawn Sorey’s ‘Cycles of My Being’ is a gripping, haunting opera that seeks answers to America’s long history of oppression. Kyle V. Hiller reviews.

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Not so marvelous: Why I’m done with ‘Mrs. Maisel’
Not like other (((girls)))
With the third season of Amazon’s ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ recently released, Wendy Rosenfield finds the trouble with the streaming sensation, from its casting to the script's erasure of Jewish identities.

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Lilli de Jong: A Novel, by Janet Benton
For Mother's Day, a mother's tale
Janet Benton's debut novel, 'Lilli de Jong,' offers a view of single motherhood in late-19th-century Philadelphia. Maria Corley reviews.

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