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Subscribing Habits of Younger Concert-goers
As you drive along the Schuykill Expressway or 95, have you seen the billboards inviting those who survive their commute to attend an upcoming Philadelphia Orchestra, PCMS, or Opera Philadelphia […]
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Classical music in the film “Ex machina”
Even if Science Fiction isn’t a movie genre that usually appeals to you, Ex machina is a film currently showing at the Ritz East in Old City and elsewhere that […]
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Rehearing New Music
What could be more challenging for a composer than getting a commission for a new work, and having it premiered by top-level musicians? The answer: getting a second performance. And […]
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Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields
Composer Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields, an oratorio for chorus and sextet commissioned by Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, has been awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Mendelssohn Club premiered the […]
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An expedition to the Kislak Center
On a stunningly beautiful Friday morning in mid-May, I joined three other MFS board members of greater standing than me—president Peter Burwasser, vice-president Janelle McCoy, and secretary Melinda Whiting—for a […]
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