ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE ROBERTSON AND THE BAND (dir. Daniel Roher): Film review
It’s the classic story of bands across eras and genres, but this is the story of The Band.
Music
Songs That Will Make You Want to Gamble at a Casino
Everyone knows about the immense influence a nice alteration of musical notes can have on a person
Natalia Kazaryan at the APS: Champion pianist champions undervalued composers
The three gems sound quite modern more than 100 years after they were written.
TYDINGS TREW (Piffaro): Shining with warmth and light
Is it anachronistic to seek out Renaissance music in this age of cybernetics?
Comedy in Sketch: YOUR SUNDAY BEST
An awesome recurring show with a line up of comedians and comic performers
PLAYING AND PRESERVING (Astral Artists, Play on Philly, Partners for Sacred Spaces): Beautiful music at St. Mary’s, Hamilton Village
Free family-friendly classical music
The Effect of Social Media on the Music Industry
How social media affects an ever-changing industry
Minute by Minute with Hugh Jackman: The Man, The Music, The Tour
Hugh Jackman is gunning to be the greatest showman.
LET ME DIE (Joseph Keckler): 2019 Fringe review
Spoilers puts it mildly: She dies. He dies. They die.
LATE NIGHT SNACKS: Stephanie Blythe (Bearded Ladies): 2019 Fringe review
Stephanie Blythe as Blythely Oratonio performing at LATE NIGHT SNACKS
FEAR ITSELF (Hum’n’Bards): Fringe review 2019
A ghost tour through a cemetery with vignettes of ghosts’ backstories
GAY MIS (Eric Jaffe): 2019 Fringe review
Drag queens, musical parodies, and fart jokes—a parody of Les Mis.
Music in Sketch: Zaccai Curtis Quintet (Exuberance Music)
The music in the Exuberance Music space is fashioned to set the bar for the finest taste in design and sound. The home entertainment in this urban designed living room…
CANDIDE (Philadelphia Orchestra): A dilettante at large review
A dilettante at large Toby Zinman reviews Candide by Leonard Bernstein.
The Master and the Magician: Fred Hersch and Cécile McLorin Salvant open the McCarter’s Second Jazz in June Festival
She pleases, she teases, and she appeases.
A dilettante at large reviews RIDERS TO THE SEA/ EMPTY THE HOUSE (Curtis Opera)
Theater critic extraordinaire Toby Zinman continues her forays into other art forms with a visit to Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theatre to see two one-act operas presented by the Curtis Opera Theatre
RENEWAL (Choral Arts Philadelphia): Matt Glandorf looks to Bach’s predecessors for the final Bach@7 concert of the season
Stay with us; for it is toward evening and the day is spent.
ALL STRAVINSKY (PA Ballet): What about the music?
The Pennsylvania Ballet does their best to ignore their fantastic orchestra
Music in Sketch: DOT MATRIX
The Sketchbook Reporter checked out a musical adventure from Dot Matrix.
