Stop. Look. Listen.

The Brandywine River Museum will celebrate the life and work of Andrew Wyeth Saturday, Jan. 31 and Sunday, Feb. 1 with a showing of the last work Wyeth painted, “Goodbye,” plus “Christina’s World,” on loan from the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The documentary film “Self Portrait: Snow Hill” will be shown every hour, on […]

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Sometimes, even the best-run blog goes astray.

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Scenes from the Lancaster Museum of Art, Friday, Jan. 23:

“Celebration of Visual Traditions: New Work of Diverse Pennsylvania Artists.”
                                   “Ron Ettleman: Assemblages and Dissolutions.”
 
 ”Artists of the Keppel Building.”

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Exhibiting a striking combination of strength and grace, thought and emotion, Xiaopei Xu played a formidable program, consisting of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Beethoven’s Sonata in F. Minor Op. 57, the “Appassionata,” and Frederic Chopin’s Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52, Friday, Jan. 23 at the Pa. Academy of Music.
Taking on one of the monuments […]

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Yo-Yo Ma and the other musicians were playing along to a recording — a necessary step due to the cold and wind. Read more here. 

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Four saxophones, new music: the PRISM Quartet will perform at Franklin & Marshall College 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24. Since there’s not a lot of music out there for a quartet of saxes, the group has gotten quite a few noted U.S. composers to write new works, including William Bolcom and Steven Mackey.
Two pianos, two […]

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Opening tonight: The Pennsylvania Arts Experience Artists Trail Exhibit at York College. The exhibit includes ”Works by Trail Artists of the Susquehanna Valley” and studio portraits of the artists by photographer Bill Simone. Opening reception is tonight (Jan. 22) from 5 to 8. Curator Rob Evans will speak on “The Pennsylvania Arts Experience: An Overview of […]

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A tribute from Art Blog by Bob.

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Just before Barack Obama took the oath of office, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Ytzhak Perlman, pianist Gabriela Montero and clarinetist Anthony McGill (not shown in the Associated Press photo at left) gathered to perform “Air and Simple Gifts” by John Williams, composer of film scores by the dozen (Star Wars, anyone?) and much more. In keeping […]

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If you enjoyed hearing pianist Michael Sheppard at last weekend’s Lancaster Symphony Orchestra concerts, he’ll be playing here again in the LSO’s Chamber Music Series at Franklin & Marshall College — more information here. And talk about guest stars — look who appeared with the Chicago Symphony in 2005!

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