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Valentin Radu and VoxAmaDeus will open their 35th concert season Sept. 12 with “BachFest.” Not only will the season mark the return to a full roster of in-person performances, it will include four performances in Chestnut Hill: three at the Episcopal Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and one at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
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by Michael Caruso
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9/10/21
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Philly Gumbo at Milo in Mt. Airy on Friday Sept. 10.
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by Len Lear
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9/7/21
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Donald Nally will conduct The Crossing before a live audience Saturday, Sept. 11, 7 p.m. in the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill.
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by Michael Caruso
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9/3/21
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A list of area establishments requiring proof of vaccination or outdoor seating.
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8/31/21
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Jazz Concert Outdoors: Ensemble Novo, a Brazilian flavored jazz band, will perform Sunday, Aug, 29, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., outdoors at Awbury Arboretum's Cope House.
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8/27/21
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Vermont-based organ builder Stephen Russell, the project’s supervisor, has faced the loss of members of his work force, as well as the temporary shuttering of several of his regular suppliers.
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by Michael Caruso
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8/20/21
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“We have decided that the time has come to end our long run of directing and performing with Piffaro at the end of the 2021-2022 concert.” With those words, Joan Kimball and Robert Wiemken announced their retirement as co-directors of Philadelphia’s internationally acclaimed Renaissance Band, Piffaro.
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by Michael Caruso
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8/6/21
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Both the Pennsylvania Ballet and the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts are changing their names. The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Kimmel Center are merging into The Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center, Inc.
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by Michael Caruso
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7/30/21
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Hideaway Music is gearing up for the second Record Store Day of the summer. Over 40 special-edition releases will be coming – and even the store doesn’t know if you can get one.
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by Walt Maguire
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7/15/21
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Two of the local classical music community’s most cherished and acclaimed resident ensembles closed out their “virtual” seasons with concerts in June. Matthew Glandorf conducted …
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by Michael Caruso
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7/2/21
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The Philadelphia Orchestra’s final “virtual” concert of its regular 2020-21 season proffered one of its most compelling programs since the suspension of “in-person” performances.
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by Michael Caruso
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6/23/21
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For his introduction to the local community, Tyrone Whiting conducted an expanded choir in the parish’s final Choral Evensong of the liturgical year.
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by Michael Caruso
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6/16/21
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Piffaro, Philadelphia Renaissance Band, closed out its 2020-2021 season of concerts with a “virtual” performance of “Fuguing from Obrect to Bach,” recorded in Christ Church, Christiana Hundred, Wilmington, Delaware.
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by Michael Caruso
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6/10/21
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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill, marked the Solemnity of Pentecost with a Choral Evensong Sunday, May 23. St. Martin-in-the-Fields will hold its first in-person Choral Evensong since the pandemic lockdown on June 6. Tempesta di Mare, Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, performed a concert entitled “Reutter’s Vienna”
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by Michael Caruso
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6/2/21
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When the Philadelphia Orchestra announced the fall portion of its 2021-2022 season of concerts, it revealed both how the ensemble was returning to pre-pandemic norms as well as how the “old normal” won’t be fully retrieved. The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia will return to “live in-person” performances in June and July.
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by Michael Caruso
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5/27/21
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The Philadelphia Orchestra’s two most recent “virtual” concerts were short in duration but interesting in repertoire. Philadelphia’s Academy of Vocal Arts offered a virtual “Farewell Recital” for graduating students.
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by Michael Caruso
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5/20/21
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St. Paul’s Church resumes in-person celebration of Choral Evensong, Rite I. And Tempesta di Mare continued its series of “Artist Recitals” with a “virtual” performance featuring its resident harpsichordist, Adam Pearl.
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by Michael Caruso
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5/14/21
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“Five Fridays” had become a popular favorite of local classical music lovers for its combination of fascinating programs and support for local charities. And Academy of Vocal Arts streamed “Verlaine, Le Voyage Humain,” April 24-28
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by Michael Caruso
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5/6/21
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The restrictions on the number of players imposed by the COVID-19 lockdown have frequently limited the Orchestra’s repertoire to either 18th century scores or expanded chamber music pieces composed in later eras.
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by Michael Caruso
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4/29/21
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One of the most interesting aspects of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s current season of “virtual” concerts recorded in the Kimmel Center is the need to limit the number of musicians assembled on the stage of Verizon Hall.
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by Michael Caruso
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4/15/21
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