This was my first time to the Esperanza Center in North Philadelphia and I was looking forward to a concert that included a number of familiar musicians and a Latino theme.  The theater was comfortable but the extremely dry acoustic of the room was better suited for movies or small groups of amplified musicians.  An…

by David Cohen

Visibility, new fans, possible CD sales, fair percentage, accurate door count, a world tour in one night and at most it takes thirty minutes. Stageit.com is a site that gives artists a platform for concerts reaching fans in real time on-line. 

Launched in March of 2011 at the SXSW Music Festival the idea was to create an online video platform that would allow artists to stream and monetize concert-like…

On a damp and dreary Sunday afternoon in December, people gathered in the auditorium of West Philadelphia Catholic High School, West Catholic as it’s affectionately called, not hear a sermon about heaven, hell, sin and redemption, but to hear Beethoven’s Fifth. Proud parents, grandparents,…

Tempesta di Mare, as the Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, has been filling a void in the musical repertoire for the last ten years. Their latest concert on Saturday evening, December 8, 2012 featured music in Germany from the time just before Bach. The directors, Gwyn Roberts and Richard Stone, certainly deserve praise for bringing these all too rare works to life.

Prior to the concert, Professor Tanya Kevorkian of Millersville University, gave a lively, albeit brief history…

Praised for its “friendly and fun” atmosphere, the Philadelphia Wind Symphony welcomes

music lovers of all ages to its third performance on Tuesday, May 8 th at 7pm in Levitt

Auditorium, at Gershman Hall, University of the Arts, 401 S. Broad…

The Meiravi Quartet presented its most recent program: "Hope Survives": The "Lost Generation" of Holocaust Composers at 3pm, March 25, 2012 in Amado Hall, UPENN. Together with musicologist Karen Uslin, who spoke about each composer and her research experience, I presented commentary on the four works performed: Schulhoff's Five Pieces for String Quartet, Krasa's Theme and Variations for String Quartet, Ullmann's String Quartet No.3,  Op.…

Hi! Lyric Fest is thrilled to join LocalArtsLive! In our first blog post - learn about our company and the upcoming program:

"A Very Good Year - Happy Birthday to 1912"

Friday, March 23 @ 8 pm

Haverford College – Marshall Auditorium, Roberts Hall

370 Lancaster Avenue,…

On Friday, February 24^th, at 8 in the evening, under the watchful eye of Our Lady Queen of All Saints & Mother of Fair Love, The Laughing Bird took those present at S. John’s Chapel in S. Clement’s Church (20^th and Appletree) on a flight spanning four centuries of vocal and instrumental music. The Anchor Room Salon, as the early music…

STEINWAY SOCIETY OF SOUTH JERSEY PRESENTS

INTERNATIONALLY CELEBRATED GREEK PIANIST KONSTANTINOS PAPADAKIS

PEFORMING MUSIC FROM FOUR CENTURIES

AT JACOBS…

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”.…

The Philadelphia Fans of Classical Music (PFCM) have chosen several local concerts from the 2011/12 season, around which to hold our meetups. As we’ve done in the past, a concert meetup will typically be preceded by another…

Usually when people think of "classical" music they think of orchestras, or violin virtuosos, or pianists, but they don't necessarily think of guitar. The guitar's typically thought of as a rock instrument. The guitar, however, was a favorite instrument of master orchestrater, Hector Berlioz, violin virtuoso, Níccolo Paganini and pianist Franz Schubert. Berlioz was the first major composer who wasn't a keyboard player and rather would use the guitar to help with harmony, orchestration, etc.…

We invite you to join the Philadelphia Fans of Classical Music and meet other classical music enthusiasts in Philly.  Our group is for those who enjoy going to concerts, listening to recordings, who want to…