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The Philadelphia Art Alliance's New Music Mondays series presents works by Jan Krzywicki, Professor of Composition at Temple University.
Philadelphia Art Alliance (251 S. 18th St.); 7:30 PM; $20
Wednesday
The Philadephia Chamber Music Society Presents the American Quartet with Lydia Artymiw, piano, in a program of Haydn, Shostakovich, Dohnanyi. The pianist will even give a free pre-concert lecture at 6:45!
Perelman Theater (Kimmel Center); 8 PM; $22
Thursday
The Academy of Vocal Arts continues with their run of Massenet's Manon.
Helen Corning Warden Theater (19th and Spruce); 7:30 PM; $48
The Philadelphia Orchestra joins forces with the Philadelphia Singers Chorale in Mahler's loud and proud Resurrection Symphony, another installment in Christoph Eschenbach's Mahler cycle. Hurry up because tickets are going fast!
Verizon Hall (Kimmel Center); 8 PM; $53-$113
Friday
All forms of art combine at the Philadelphia Art Museum concert of saxophone quartet PRISM and the Miro Dance Theatre. Their show will feature selections from Pitch Black, a combination of video installation and choreography set to music with audio samples ranging from Billie Holiday to death row inmates.
Philadelphia Museum of Art; 5:45 PM; Free with museum admission
The Philadelphia Opera presents Verdi's Falstaff, the result of what happens when a master composer looks to Shakespeare for inspiration.
Academy of Music (Broad and Locust); 8 PM; $6-$170
Saturday
Like Brubeck? He's more than just Take Five. Singing City's 59th anniversary concert features all works by the jazz icon, Dave Brubeck. On the program will be The Gates of Justice, Brubeck's response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and a 45-minute jazz set by the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church (625 Montgomery Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA); 8 PM; $35
Image via montereyjazzfestival.org
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Ok, so I totally love reading the Weekly Classical Music Agenda and finding out what is going on in my favorite city musically as I am 3K miles away, but is anyone ever going to review one of these concerts?
Our policy on Phillyist is that we only review the shows that people want to give us tickets to. Unfortunately, Phillyist doesn't have much of an operating budget, so we can't buy tickets to events for our staffers, and staffers (and editors!) are volunteers, so they can't afford to buy the tickets themselves. If any of the people in the weekly listings want to send Sydney, or any other Phillyist staffers, to see their shows, we'd be more than happy to review them!
shouldn't part of the review cover obtaining tickets? For hard to get events it would be nice to know that the reviewer had to spend an hour and a half online or how much of a premium they paid on the "secondary" market. How they ended up in the back of the hall, or all they way to the left etc etc etc
Again—as we're only able to cover events that we're given tickets to, we can't really speak to how to obtain them. This is network policy. Readers are definitely encouraged to let us know about how they got their tickets!
OK, not to beat a dead horse, but.
1. Are you not allowed to request press tickets? Has anyone tried?
2. Honestly, perhaps many of the "classical music" venues, performers, and concert goers don't know about the Phillyist. (Just sayin'--the Phillysist doesn't seem to have the same penetration as our dear SFist does).
3. What about free concerts? Are you not allowed to review a free concert because of the Reviewist Nazi policy that you can only review concerts for which you have recieved complimentary tickets? I mean really, you could review a Curtis recital--those are FREE!
I'm not really bitter--it's just that musically in many ways, Philly has so much to offer muscially (and sometimes more so than SF) and I want to read about it--not just be teased with all the concerts I'm missing.
Plus, I feel like if you're going to care enough to run a classical music agenda column you really need to write a review, or perhaps in this case it should be...if you care enough to run a classical music agenda column you should care enough to pursue tickets so you can then write a review.
Sorry, I'm not a bitch...really.
I completely agree with you. I wish we were able to review more concerts in the area. This Agenda is only 8 months old and is very much still a work in progress. It is one of my summer projects to add Phillyist to the press list of as many local performance groups as I can. I didn't want to approach groups with no material and no readership. Now that I have both, I am very excited to progress to the next phase. As far as free student concerts are concerned, it is my personal choice not to review them (being a performance student myself) because most are not finished products and therefore not ready for a review.
Thanks so much for reading and I hope you'll hang in for another few months while we start gearing up for a more review-intensive year!