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Category: Music

Coverage of music in Philadelphia.

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LET ME DIE (Joseph Keckler): 2019 Fringe review

Toby Zinman September 26, 2019 No Comments

Spoilers puts it mildly: She dies. He dies. They die.

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LATE NIGHT SNACKS: Stephanie Blythe (Bearded Ladies): 2019 Fringe review

Carolyn Wyman September 15, 2019 No Comments

Stephanie Blythe as Blythely Oratonio performing at LATE NIGHT SNACKS

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FEAR ITSELF (Hum’n’Bards): Fringe review 2019

Rudolf Schreiber September 13, 2019 No Comments

A ghost tour through a cemetery with vignettes of ghosts’ backstories

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GAY MIS (Eric Jaffe): 2019 Fringe review

Rudolf Schreiber September 8, 2019 No Comments

Drag queens, musical parodies, and fart jokes—a parody of Les Mis.

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Music in Sketch: Zaccai Curtis Quintet (Exuberance Music)

Chuck Schultz August 7, 2019 No Comments

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

Toby Zinman June 23, 2019 No Comments

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

Margaret Darby June 13, 2019 1 Comment

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)

Toby Zinman May 5, 2019 No Comments

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

Margaret Darby April 26, 2019 No Comments

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?

Margaret Darby April 8, 2019 No Comments

The Pennsylvania Ballet does their best to ignore their fantastic orchestra

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Music in Sketch: DOT MATRIX

Aaron Krolikowski April 8, 2019 No Comments

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 March 14, 2019 No Comments

Toby Zinman feels the Japanese rhythms of KODO drum troupe.

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Music in Sketch: UPTOWN NIGHTS (Philly POPS)

Chuck Schultz March 11, 2019 No Comments

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)

Chuck Schultz March 1, 2019 No Comments

Sketching the orchestra

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What A Lark: The dilettante at large has A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM with Opera Philly

Toby Zinman February 12, 2019 1 Comment

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

Margaret Darby February 9, 2019 No Comments

Benjamin Britten’s music still sounds wonderfully imaginative and modern

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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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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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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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Broadway Wants You to Vote

Douglas Cartwright October 17, 2018 No Comments

Mario Lopez and Daphne Rubin-Vega lead a group of Broadway performers lending their voices to a new “Get Out the Vote” music video

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