Entries Tagged as 'music'

It’s a Rumschpringe weekend at the Stahr

November 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Long schedules call for short films. Rumschpringe and the Theater of the Seventh Sister have teamed up for a Black Friday Weekend Bazaar at the Stahr Performing Arts Center, 438 N. Queen St.: “Merch, Music, Magic, Movies and More.” $6 per day or $11 for a weekend pass, come and go as you please. Hours […]

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Tags: theater · film · art · music

On the way to the concert …

November 21st, 2008 · No Comments

A terrifying drive on a California freeway, set to appropriate music. (Thank you to Mind the Gap.)
Wendy Edsall-Kerwin at Hammermarks considers the importance of community. (And now you’re in the blogroll!)

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Tags: excursions · art · music

On a symphonic journey, there’s no place like Earth

November 15th, 2008 · No Comments

I have actually heard, I forget where, the complaint that classical music “isn’t loud enough.” Friday’s Lancaster Symphony Orchestra concert at the Fulton Opera House was more than loud enough, with a program that was full both musically and emotionally. And not only was the orchestra expanded for the occasion but the concert marked the […]

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Tags: Lancaster Symphony Orchestra · review · music · Uncategorized

Symphony goes into orbit

November 14th, 2008 · No Comments

This weekend’s Lancaster Symphony Orchestra program features Gustav Holst’s The Planets, Miguel del Aguila’s Choral Suite No. 2 (read more about the composer here)and John Williams’ “Call of the Champions,” composed for the 2002 Winter Olympics. All this and art, too!

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Soundweaving from Tapestry

November 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Tapestry, a four-woman singing group that sprang from Boston’s lively early-music scene in 1995, sang of heaven and its inhabitants, beauty and light — and darkness, too – at Elizabethtown College’s Leffler Chapel and Performance Center Sunday evening in a program titled “In the Company of Angels.” Soprano Cristi Catt and mezzo-sopranos Laurie Monahan, Daniela Tošić and Carolann Buff […]

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Tags: choral · Gretna Music · Elizabethtown College · review · music · Uncategorized

Black disc keep on spinning …

November 10th, 2008 · No Comments

… Proud Mary keep on winning? Anyway, the Pennsylvania Music Expo has found itself new digs way up in Denver, at the German Trading Post, 2152 N. Reading Rd. (Rt. 272), very close to the Turnpike. (If you’ve been up that way, you’ll probably recognize the building: it’s the one with the big round sign.) […]

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MU: Dancing at the edge

October 16th, 2008 · No Comments

One of the most interesting projects of this season is going to be on stage at Millersville University Friday night. The American Repertory Ballet will perform “Worlds End. And Worlds Begin,” a world premier dance choreographed by ARB director Graham Lustig, with music by MU professor and composer Rusty Banks and video images by Scott […]

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Tags: dance · Millersville University · music

Not-so-final vinyl

October 9th, 2008 · No Comments

The Keystone Record Collectors organization has managed to negotiate two more months at 2460 New Holland Pike in Leola for the Pennsylvania Record Expo. Shows are this Sunday, Oct. 12 and Sunday, Nov. 9. See details here.

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That fiddle’s on fire!

October 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Israeli violinist Hagai Shaham gave a fiery account of Jenő Hubay’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 in G minor at Friday’s opening concert of the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stephen Gunzenhauser, who dedicated the performance to the memory of Dorothy Ann “Dot” Haley, 1986-1988 symphony board chairman, and also to the memory of […]

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Surrounded by symphonies

September 30th, 2008 · No Comments

That curious sound you hear: random bleats, tweets, twangs and thumps, fragments of melody and the hum of strings, coalescing around the plangent “A” from the oboe. Here, there and all around, musicians are hauling their black clothes out of the closet as symphony orchestras get ready for the upcoming season. Here’s a look at some […]

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Tags: York · Lancaster Symphony Orchestra · Harrisburg · music · Reading · Uncategorized