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Author: Margaret Darby

Music Reviews

The Musical Legacy of Charles V: Piffaro Founders’ Finale

Margaret Darby May 14, 2022 No Comments

The final concert for Piffaro founders Joan Kimball and Bob Wiemken is far from a somber affair as they celebrate a thriving Renaissance band as their legacy.

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Lisette: A Haitian song travels through Philadelphia history and beyond

Margaret Darby August 10, 2021 1 Comment

The oldest-known Haitian song has a Philadelphia connection.

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Music

A pandemic, a passel of musicians, and panoply of ideas: Scott Ordway’s digital video project Twenty/Twenty

Margaret Darby December 23, 2020 No Comments

A joint project commissioned by Hamilton College, Swarthmore College, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr.

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Music Reviews

Girl in the Snow: A new CD by Rutgers-based composer Scott Ordway

Margaret Darby December 20, 2020 No Comments

Ordway’s originality shines through every aspect of this music.

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Music

Piffaro joins Carillon at Miraculous Medal Shrine in Germantown

Margaret Darby November 1, 2020 2 Comments

Piffaro’s stream offered advantages a live concert would never have afforded.

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Music Reviews

Natalia Kazaryan at the APS: Champion pianist champions undervalued composers

Margaret Darby December 17, 2019 No Comments

The three gems sound quite modern more than 100 years after they were written.

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Music Reviews

TYDINGS TREW (Piffaro): Shining with warmth and light

Margaret Darby December 16, 2019 No Comments

Is it anachronistic to seek out Renaissance music in this age of cybernetics?

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Music Reviews

PLAYING AND PRESERVING (Astral Artists, Play on Philly, Partners for Sacred Spaces): Beautiful music at St. Mary’s, Hamilton Village

Margaret Darby November 25, 2019 1 Comment

Free family-friendly classical music

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Dance Reviews

SUMMER SERIES 2019 (BalletX): BalletX brings The Little Prince to life

Margaret Darby July 19, 2019 No Comments

This contemporary ballet of a classic children’s book is immediately understandable for children, but also poignant and thought-provoking for adults.

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Reviews Theater

BETTY’S SUMMER VACATION (IRC): A terribly funny nightmare of a beach trip

Margaret Darby June 16, 2019 No Comments

For their June show, the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium decided to take on a grotesque play by Christopher Durang which Tina Brock directed. Brock herself has…

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Music Reviews

The Master and the Magician: Fred Hersch and Cécile McLorin Salvant open the McCarter’s Second Jazz in June Festival

Margaret Darby June 13, 2019 1 Comment

She pleases, she teases, and she appeases.

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Music Reviews

RENEWAL (Choral Arts Philadelphia): Matt Glandorf looks to Bach’s predecessors for the final Bach@7 concert of the season

Margaret Darby April 26, 2019 No Comments

Stay with us; for it is toward evening and the day is spent.

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Dance Music Reviews

ALL STRAVINSKY (PA Ballet): What about the music?

Margaret Darby April 8, 2019 No Comments

The Pennsylvania Ballet does their best to ignore their fantastic orchestra

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Music Reviews

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Opera Philadelphia): Fairy magic and flying beds

Margaret Darby February 9, 2019 No Comments

Benjamin Britten’s music still sounds wonderfully imaginative and modern

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Music Reviews

Xavier Foley makes the double bass sing at PCMS

Margaret Darby January 27, 2019 No Comments

The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents a Musical Fund Society Series with Xavier Foley, Sejoon Park, and Eunice Kim

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Music Reviews

Piffaro Presents a 16th-Century French Noel

Margaret Darby December 24, 2018 No Comments

The exquisite program notes took the audience as close to the sixteenth century French Noel midnight mass as possible

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Music Reviews

Heath and More: a British string quartet provides a tour of musical landscapes in a PCMS concert

Margaret Darby November 20, 2018 No Comments

The Heath Quartet plays Tippett, Britten, and Purcell

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Without Peer: The Cherry Street Pier opening is an unqualified success

Margaret Darby October 13, 2018 No Comments

An anticipated cultural attraction opens along the Delaware River.

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ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2018 Fringe review (2nd)

Margaret Darby September 21, 2018 No Comments

Another review of IRC’s 2018 Fringe piece.

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Music Reviews

TRANSCENDENCE TO TRANSPARENCY (Les Canards Chantants): Music review

Margaret Darby May 29, 2018 1 Comment

Les Canards Chantants (“the singing ducks”), a renaissance polyphony voice ensemble, was born in England but is now based in Philadelphia.

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