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Peter Dobrin
Peter Dobrin is a classical music critic for The Inquirer. Since 1989, he has written music reviews, features, news and commentary for the paper, covering such topics as the Philadelphia Orchestras 64-day strike in 1996, the development of a new performing arts center in Philadelphia, changes in the classical-recording industry and the finances of Philadelphias arts organizations. He has also covered the Philadelphia Orchestras tours in Asia, South America and the United States. Dobrin was a French horn player. He earned an undergraduate degree in performance from the University of Miami, and received a masters degree in music criticism from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with Elliott Galkin. His work has also appeared in the Baltimore Sun and the Washington Post. Dobrin also writes an On Music column, which appears monthly in Sundays Arts & Entertainment. He can be reached at pdobrin@phillynews.com.
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Music can nourish the hungering human soul
What can music do for you? What can't it do? Like little Harold Hills around the globe, arts leaders are offering music as the tonic for a world of ills.
By Peter Dobrin / Inquirer Music Critic
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It's a delicate dance between art and money
It seeped into our cultural conversations so long ago, with such an air of incontrovertible horse sense, that no one notices it anymore.
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By Peter Dobrin,
Inquirer Music Critic,
09/01/2002 08:19 AM EDT)
Chamber, the soul-filling, listener-sized music
They're not anti-orchestra, this seemingly growing group of ardent music followers. There's just something about chamber music that fills a place in the soul. Maybe even more so now that people seem to be looking for a personal connection - a dialogue, a one-on-one relationship - with the music. It's just easier to imagine yourself as protagonist as a lone violin outlines the musical narrative. You and a Haydn string quartet against the world. A whole orchestra? A little too much clamoring for your...
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By Peter Dobrin,
INQUIRE MUSIC CRITIC,
08/04/2002 08:53 AM EDT)
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