Drag queens, musical parodies, and fart jokes—a parody of Les Mis.
View More GAY MIS (Eric Jaffe): 2019 Fringe reviewCategory: Music
Coverage of music in Philadelphia.
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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A dilettante at large Toby Zinman reviews Candide by Leonard Bernstein.
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She pleases, she teases, and she appeases.
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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
View More A dilettante at large reviews RIDERS TO THE SEA/ EMPTY THE HOUSE (Curtis Opera)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.
View More RENEWAL (Choral Arts Philadelphia): Matt Glandorf looks to Bach’s predecessors for the final Bach@7 concert of the seasonALL STRAVINSKY (PA Ballet): What about the music?
The Pennsylvania Ballet does their best to ignore their fantastic orchestra
View More ALL STRAVINSKY (PA Ballet): What about the music?Music in Sketch: DOT MATRIX
The Sketchbook Reporter checked out a musical adventure from Dot Matrix.
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Toby Zinman feels the Japanese rhythms of KODO drum troupe.
View More KODO: A dilettante at large enjoys the Japanese drum troupMusic in Sketch: UPTOWN NIGHTS (Philly POPS)
The Philly Pops roused the rhythm and blues, and the classical and traditional on the same stage.
View More Music in Sketch: UPTOWN NIGHTS (Philly POPS)Music in Sketch: Shaw, Weber, Brahm (Philadelphia Orchestra)
Sketching the orchestra
View More Music in Sketch: Shaw, Weber, Brahm (Philadelphia Orchestra)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.
View More What A Lark: The dilettante at large has A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM with Opera PhillyA MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Opera Philadelphia): Fairy magic and flying beds
Benjamin Britten’s music still sounds wonderfully imaginative and modern
View More A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Opera Philadelphia): Fairy magic and flying bedsXavier Foley makes the double bass sing at PCMS
The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents a Musical Fund Society Series with Xavier Foley, Sejoon Park, and Eunice Kim
View More Xavier Foley makes the double bass sing at PCMSPiffaro Presents a 16th-Century French Noel
The exquisite program notes took the audience as close to the sixteenth century French Noel midnight mass as possible
View More Piffaro Presents a 16th-Century French NoelHeath and More: a British string quartet provides a tour of musical landscapes in a PCMS concert
The Heath Quartet plays Tippett, Britten, and Purcell
View More Heath and More: a British string quartet provides a tour of musical landscapes in a PCMS concertBroadway Wants You to Vote
Mario Lopez and Daphne Rubin-Vega lead a group of Broadway performers lending their voices to a new “Get Out the Vote” music video
View More Broadway Wants You to VoteA dilettante at large reviews NE QUITTEZ PAS (Opera Philadelphia)
What a complicated evening, filled with gorgeous singing and roiled emotions and puzzling theatrics
View More A dilettante at large reviews NE QUITTEZ PAS (Opera Philadelphia)THE WILLIAM PENN STORY (Brotherly Love Theatre Company): 2018 Fringe review
The show literally ROCKS!
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An imaginatively textured musical performance in which music, sounds, and speaking are of a piece
View More SONGS OF WARS I HAVE SEEN (Heiner Goebbels): 2018 Fringe review