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Competition for dollars and crowds may be fierce
The klieg lights are off. With the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts entering season number two and the novelty wearing off a bit, how faithful will Philadelphia's large, engaged classical music community remain - amid shrinking stock portfolios?
By David Patrick Stearns and Peter Dobrin / INQUIRER MUSIC CRITICS
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Applause (but no drum roll) for the irrepressible Ned Rorem
Composers are rarely more honored, public-friendly and prolific than Ned Rorem. So he has earned the right to disapprove - and to do so with weighty pronouncements. You'd think that he was discussing foreign policy last year when he voiced disapproval of Elton John's seven-figure payday for opening the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
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By David Patrick Stearns,
Inquirer Music Critic,
08/25/2002 08:04 AM EST)
Post-9/11, some musical styles just feel wrong
Bernadette Peters is cooing with dreamy innocence, trying to convince me that it's a grand night for singing, that the earth is aglow, that birds are twittering at a cloud-free sky. I'm listening to her album of Rodgers & Hammerstein songs, titled Loves, through headphones on an airplane while trying to relax into my minuscule seat.
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By David Patrick Stearns,
Inquirer Music Critic,
08/18/2002 07:55 AM EST)
Mann now fitter home for classics
After 26 years of being a troublesome venue for classical music, the Mann Center for the Performing Arts took a quantum leap in viability this season.
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By David Patrick Stearns,
Inquirer Music Critic,
08/06/2002 03:34 PM EST)
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