In October, the Philadelphia Orchestra appeared in Verizon Hall for the first time in 18 months. Yannick Nezet-Seguin led the…
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“Unfortunately, I have a lot in common with Eugene Onegin,” said Ethan Vincent, the 30-year-old Apprentice Artist who understudied the…
It has been a long dry fast for theater, music, and opera aficionados. OK, that was not the worst suffering…
Marcellina, the role mezzo soprano Apprentice Artist Lindsay Kate Brown is taking over for the last two performances of “Marriage…
In the last act of Benjamin Britten’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” after all the lovers have been reunited, the Ass has…
Alexander Pushkin knew intimately the world of which he wrote in his novel-in-verse “Eugene Onegin.” He was raised by nannies…
John Corigliano and Mark Adamo’s new Dracula opera, “The Lord of Cries,” which premiered at Santa Fe Opera on July…
New York Times reporters are now being trained to make strong impressions when they appear as experts on broadcast news…
Gertrude Stein used to say that ” the only thing that changes is what people are looking at “,which, given…
The Philadelphia Orchestra musicians are together again on the Verizon Hall stage in Philadelphia, in masks or positioned behind Plexiglas…
Musical transcriptions have been around for millenia, even before the medieval, baroque, classical, romantic, modernist and postmodernist periods of the…
Philadelphia Orchestra maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin returned to the stage with the orchestra after six months, on the day it was…
A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR: Please excuse the lateness of this piece but three versions of it that I wrote…
South-by-Southwest (a.k.a. SXSW) began in Austin, TX as a music festival in 1987, continuously expanding in the years since to…