Community Family Concert Series presents

Violinist Ryu Goto (Midori's brother) in recital with pianist Eri Kang

Program:

I've always favored classical instrumentals over vocals but in an effort to broaden my horizons and make sure I reach out to all classical music organizations, I've attended a few concerts emphasizing vocals.  I topped this off Friday night by attending my first opera.  The rarely performed Oberto by Verdi will end…

IN ADVANCE OF HIS ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA DEBUT

PIANO LOVERS ARE INVITED TO …

A FREE MASTER CLASS AT JACOBS MUSIC COMPANY

WITH INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED STEINWAY…

Love songs and brunch – what could be more romantic? LiveConnections presents a noontime ClassicAlive! performance by Astral artists Dísella Làrusdóttir, soprano, and Jonathan Beyer, baritone, with Jonathan Ware, piano. The acclaimed artists will perform a selection of…

Philomusica Chorale

If you were anywhere near the Oreland Pennsylvania area on Saturday night, January, 28, between 7:30 and 9:30, you must have felt the ground reverberating with the voices of the Philomusica Chorale joined by a 20 piece orchestra performing G. F. Handel's oratorio,"Judas Maccabaeus" with Morell's libretto.  Not being a musician myself--except for playing the piano when no one else is around--I did not realize that an oratorio is actually an opera…

If Verizon Hall was filled to near-capacity for the Philadelphia Orchestra’s performance on Friday night, I think that this was due more to the presence of Music Director Designate, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (YNS), on the podium and at the harpsichord, than to the program: Mahler’s 6th Symphony and J.S. Bach’s 5th Brandenburg Concerto. YNS’s last Philadelphia Orchestra appearance, when he conducted Brahms’ German Requiem, and Mozart’s 40th Symphony, was equally well-attended. However, the synergy…

Chamber music wants to be played in a chamber.  Not a huge concert hall.  With the background conversations and random percussive bursts from the latte machine the music was relaxed and at home in the cozy room in Mug Shots coffee house.  Rick Robinson, double bass, Detroit Symphony, has taken a…

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the new Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, announced the forthcoming 2012-13 concert season at a Q&A session held at the Kimmel Center on Wed. YNS shared a small stage with the Orchestra’s CEO, Alllison Vulgamore, and Concertmaster, David Kim. The start of the interview was announced by trombones, which serenaded the audience from the 1st Tier, overlooking the vast Kimmel Center lobby. YNS spoke without notes, and demonstrated an ease of expression and…

When you turn on the classical station on the radio, you may immediately know the composer of the work you are hearing.  Perhaps it is because you know the main theme of the piece.  But sometimes even without being familiar with the particular…

Philomusica Chorale Presents:

Judas Maccabeus

Philomusica Chorale is pleased to present Handel’s Judas Maccabeus at 7:30pm on January 28th, 2012. The concert will be held at Christ’s Lutheran Church, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue Oreland, PA. Tickets are on sale now at the organization’s website,…

I only learned today, that 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth (on September 12, 1912) of composer John Cage. It occurs to me that I should have used an adjective before “composer”: choose “iconoclastic”, “controversial” or “pioneer”.…

LocalArtsLive Young Friends' (LYF) mission is to bring new energy, excitement, and life (LYF) into the classical music community in the Philadelphia area by engaging young fans and musicians.  

Initial Plan

The idea for the group was one of 55 proposals recently chosen by the Knight Foundation in their Arts…

Something for everyone Monday night at Curtis, from Bach to Stravinsky. Steven Waarts led off with Beethoven's 7th violin sonata. This is one of the most beautiful of Beethoven's 10 sonatas, and beautifully played.

Next up, Jenny Chen began a set of 4 groups of pieces: a selection from Bach's Well-tempered Clavier, part 2; two of 12 etudes, Op. 10, by Chopin; a piece by Debussy, and then Three Movements from Petrushka by Stravinsky. Very engaging playing, as…

The Academy of Vocal Arts presents the Philadelphia premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s first opera, Oberto, in concert with orchestra, January 26 and 27 in the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater and January 31 at The Haverford School.  AVA’s music director Christofer Macatsoris will conduct the AVA…

The Orion Quartet--Daniel and Todd Phillips,who are brothers, trading duties on 1st and 2nd Violin, Timothy Eddy, cellist, and Steve Tennenbom, on the staff at Curtis, violist--put on a fine performance at the Seaport Museum. It was the latest on the PCMS series.

The first half of the program was devoted to Mozart's C Major quartet, "the dissonant," and Johannes Brahms's 1st string quartet, opus 51, No. 1. Todd Phillips played the 1st on both of these pieces. The Mozart was…

The first event by a brand new organization usually results in some unexpected rough edges but this was not the case at the Philadelphia Lieder Society's Liederabend concert last night.  It was an ambitious endeavor.  Musicians auditioned several months ago before a selection committee that included renowned…

"People were not yet bold enough to attribute values --- even infinite ones --- to the immediate, unforeseen, unforeseeable, and unimportant products of the moment.  The principle that you win at every throw had not yet been…

Sharon post about classical music in a coffee shop. It reminds thus that before the shift of concertizing to large performance venues designed to make money off of performances, people used to play in coffee shops all the time. Or, they'd use local office space. Venues were at a premium and they had to scrounge for places to play. We just think of concert halls as the only way to do it. 

I'm proud to announce that my proposal for a young friends of classical music group to the Knight Arts Challenge for Philadelphia was selected as a finalist.  Only 55 proposals were selected out of over 1200 entries so it's quite an honor to have made it this far.  Look for "Sharon Torello" in the list -…