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A Tale of Two Orchestras: The Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Music Center and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at Heinz Hall

by Pete Matthews (in Cleveland, OH and Pittsburgh, PA) Despite being several generations removed from their industrial heyday, both Cleveland and Pittsburgh punch well above their weight when it comes […]

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“Written on Skin” at Opera Philadelphia

by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) Proclaimed an instant modern masterpiece when it premiered almost 6 years ago at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, George Benjamin and Martin Crimp's opera

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Tanglewood 2013: U.S. Premiere of George Benjamin’s “Written on Skin”

"With music I can open a heart/as easily as you can open a door/and reach right in." — Into the Little Hill LENOX, MA — Over the past few years, some

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