Review: DAVID COHEN: GUITAR

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by Artistic Director Matthew Glandorf, January 2013

Ahead of Choral Arts Philadelphia's performance of Rossini's PETITE MESSE SOLENNELLE on Saturday, February 9th at 7 pm at Saint Mark's Episcopal Church (17th and Locust St., Philadelphia)

A favorite pastime…

The Academy of Vocal Arts present’s Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. AVA’s award-winning resident artists will perform this audience favorite, with all of the outrageous scheming, hilarious disguises, and familiar melodies that audiences know and love.

AVA Master Vocal Coach Richard A. Raub will conduct the AVA Opera Orchestra. For over 28 years, he has performed, conducted, and taught throughout Philadelphia as well as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and The Crested…

In today's world of lightning fast news and countless streams of information, consider how carefully the composer of the ancient song in this picture chose his words and notes.  We could benefit from a dose of this careful craft to ponder whether our own words are worthy of stone.  I'm sure this blog will not fit…

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.…