Philadelphia’s music scene is popping.
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Category: Music
Coverage of music in Philadelphia.
The Effect of Social Media on the Music Industry
How social media affects an ever-changing industry
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Minute by Minute with Hugh Jackman: The Man, The Music, The Tour
Hugh Jackman is gunning to be the greatest showman.
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Let Me Die (Joseph Keckler): 2019 Fringe review
How many times can we witness a dramatic death on TV, in movies, or even opera?
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LET ME DIE (Joseph Keckler): 2019 Fringe review
Spoilers puts it mildly: She dies. He dies. They die.
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LATE NIGHT SNACKS: Stephanie Blythe (Bearded Ladies): 2019 Fringe review
Stephanie Blythe as Blythely Oratonio performing at LATE NIGHT SNACKS
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FEAR ITSELF (Hum’n’Bards): Fringe review 2019
A ghost tour through a cemetery with vignettes of ghosts’ backstories
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GAY MIS (Eric Jaffe): 2019 Fringe review
Drag queens, musical parodies, and fart jokes—a parody of Les Mis.
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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…
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CANDIDE (Philadelphia Orchestra): A dilettante at large review
A dilettante at large Toby Zinman reviews Candide by Leonard Bernstein.
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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.
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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
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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.
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ALL STRAVINSKY (PA Ballet): What about the music?
The Pennsylvania Ballet does their best to ignore their fantastic orchestra
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Music in Sketch: DOT MATRIX
The Sketchbook Reporter checked out a musical adventure from Dot Matrix.
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KODO: A dilettante at large enjoys the Japanese drum troup
Toby Zinman feels the Japanese rhythms of KODO drum troupe.
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Music in Sketch: UPTOWN NIGHTS (Philly POPS)
The Philly Pops roused the rhythm and blues, and the classical and traditional on the same stage.
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Music in Sketch: Shaw, Weber, Brahm (Philadelphia Orchestra)
Sketching the orchestra
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What A Lark: The dilettante at large has A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM with Opera Philly
Visually, musically, and vocally gorgeous, this is a delectable MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Opera Philadelphia): Fairy magic and flying beds
Benjamin Britten’s music still sounds wonderfully imaginative and modern
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