What a complicated evening, filled with gorgeous singing and roiled emotions and puzzling theatrics
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Coverage of music in Philadelphia.
THE WILLIAM PENN STORY (Brotherly Love Theatre Company): 2018 Fringe review
The show literally ROCKS!
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SONGS OF WARS I HAVE SEEN (Heiner Goebbels): 2018 Fringe review
An imaginatively textured musical performance in which music, sounds, and speaking are of a piece
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Fringe in Sketch: SONGS OF WARS I HAVE SEEN (Heiner Goebbels)
A bittersweet lament on war’s insidious effects
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TRANSCENDENCE TO TRANSPARENCY (Les Canards Chantants): Music review
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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TOSCA (Philadelphia Orchestra): Music as a cultural mission
Yannick Nevet-Seguin conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra in a semi-staged performance of Puccini’s TOSCA
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CARMEN (Opera Philadelphia): Color and excitement
nspired by by the resetting of their 2015 production of La Traviata, director Paul Curran and set/costume designer Gary McCann team up again to bring CARMEN to a nearer past, set in a beautiful Havana-esque 1950’s.
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The German Society of Pennsylvania presents their final Delius Society Concert
The Wister Quartet and Choral Arts Philadelphia gave their audience a rare chance to hear the Delius Songs of Sunset.
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“I Can’t Kiss Myself Alone”: The Wit and Retro Style of Berlin’s Max Raabe and His Palast Orchestra. Interview by Henrik Eger
One of Germany’s most popular singers launches his North American tour this week.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra pulls in an audience with a surprisingly good Philadelphia Voices
Philadelphia Voices is about a lot more than cheesesteaks!
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Lahav Shani leads Philadelphia Orchestra with music by Lindberg, Stravinsky, and Prokofiev
Twenty-nine-year-old maestro Lahav Shani leads the Philadelphia Orchestra with a spotlight on trumpeter David Bilger
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THE PRODUCERS (Bristol Riverside): Bialystock & Bloom, mini-Madoffs of the theater world
Mel Brooks’s THE PRODUCERS has gone from Screen Comedy to Musical Comedy to Screen Musical Comedy and back to the stage again.
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A dilettante at large: LEONARD BERNSTEIN: THE POWER OF MUSIC (NMAJH)
If you’re a Leonard Bernstein fan, don’t miss the terrific new exhibit at the National Museum of American Jewish History.
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Paul is Live: Interview with the fab star of RAIN: A Tribute to the Beatles
An accomplished musician, Paul Curatolo’s love of the Beatles has driven him to master the character of McCartney.
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A dilettante at large: A QUIET PLACE (Curtis Institute of Music)
The Curtis Institute of Music and Opera Philadelphia’s stunning production Leonard Bernstein’s opera, A Quiet Place, is one of many worldwide celebrations of his centennial;
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NINETEEN MOVEMENTS FOR UNACCOMPANIED CELLO (Scott Ordway): Sounding the Chestnut Hill Skyspace for a world premiere
The premiere of composer Scott Ordway’s Nineteen Movements for Unaccompanied Cello took place in the perfect setting – the James Turrell Skyspace in the Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting.
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Performance in Sketch: Daedalus String Quartet and Michael Hollinger’s OPUS
Annenberg Center presented a program of music and theater, with a Beethoven performance by the Daedalus String Quartet and a staged reading by playwright Michael Hollinger
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Theater in Sketch: A PROUST SONATA (Da Camera at FIAF)
Sketch artist Chuck Schultz visited Manhattan to see a Houston company’s concert-theater interpretation of In Search of Lost Time.
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VISUAL MUSIC (Network for New Music at the University of the Arts): Art in music
Out of the ordinary, but a delight to experience.
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[music review] Mélomanie at Saint Clements with soprano Clara Rottsolk
The eclectic chamber group Mélomanie presented some of their characteristic “provocative pairings of early & contemporary works” in Saint Clement’s Church on Saturday
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