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Philly Music & Nightlife:• Review: Center City Opera’s fine ‘Il Postino’ In its East Coast premiere Daniel Catán’s operatic version of the film Il Postino is infinitely more engaging than one could ever have predicted from an opera that has little exterior action characters that aren’t especially heroic and music that hasn’t a fraction of the usual tension of the opera’s 20th-century predecessors. You aren’t likely to walk away from the Center City Opera Theater production which opened Thursday at the Prince Music Theater thinking you’ve seen a masterpiece. But the experience — with beautiful music and scenes set by computer-animated projections suggesting the Italian island setting — is like a mini-vacation to a mellow place that might not be a viable residence but makes for a haunting visit. When he died last year at 62 Catán was beloved but rarely heard in many of the usual U.S. opera centers. Part of the new tonality school of composers he went a step further: He could create drama without dissonance sometimes by taking his fundamentally lush harmonic language and pushing it beyond the ordinary bounds in order to give his stories their needed dramatic contour. Il Postino’s plot was right for his ability to make the most common inner transformations like falling in love feel important. But he wasn’t one to pretend that the last 50 years of music hadn’t happened. His harmonic modulations go to all sorts of unexpected places. Often the music’s soul lies in the writing for winds. >> read more or comment • Review: Dutoit bids a dazzling ‘Au revoir’ Keen listeners might find a poignant layer or two around Charles Dutoit’s final stroke as chief conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé ends on a nearly unbearably brilliant A major chord — the key German poet Christian Schubart believed messaged the hope upon parting of seeing one’s beloved again. Verizon Hall’s Thursday night capacity audience seemed to be yearning already. A standing ovation for the conductor began gathering even before the music’s start just after he glided on stage and neared the podium. But Dutoit had already pivoted for the upbeat to Glinka’s Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila and apparently missed his admirers’ incipient gesture. >> read more or comment • Donna Summer Disco diva Donna Summer passed away Thursday May 17 2012 at 63 after a battle with cancer. >> read more or comment • For Hootie's Rucker country's a second act Darius Rucker is the first to admit he's had one of pop music's most unusual - though to him hardly unexpected - second acts. >> read more or comment • Justin Townes Earle Mariachi El Bronx Butch Hancock to perform in Philadelphia Justin Townes Earle "Hear my father on the radio singing . . ." Thus Justin Townes Earle begins his fourth album Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now. That's not the only time Steve Earle is alluded to in the 10-song set. Not t >> read more or comment • Concert and club listings In Concert Arden Gild Hall 2126 The Highway Wilmington; 302-475-3126. www.ardenclub.com. Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real. $15. 5/19. 8 pm. >> read more or comment • 'In the Mix' Inquirer critic Dan DeLuca writes about pop music and culture at www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inthemix. >> read more or comment • Who is Bob Lefsetz and why are radio insiders eager to hear him speak? Look out Non-Comm here comes Bob Lefsetz. Bob who? Non-what? >> read more or comment • Labor Day concert on Parkway will require admission Concert promoters and the city are still a long way from working out logistics for the Labor Day weekend Made in America music festival unveiled Monday the first Parkway event ever to require paid admission. >> read more or comment • Curtis’ year-end crescendo with a melancholy note Most schools might prefer that graduating students show up to collect their diplomas. But at Saturday’s ceremonies launching 36 graduates into uncertain futures the Curtis Institute of Music noted a no-show with some pride: Canadian violinist Nikki Chooi sent his regrets as he was busy being a finalist in Belgium’s prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition. >> read more or comment Philadelphia City Paper - Music Picks:Phillyist:• So Long and Thanks for All the Fish Just days before Live 8 in late June of 2005 the inimitable John Carroll Phillyist's first editor let the world know that Phillyist was live and online. Now five years six months three days and nearly 13000 posts later it is my official duty to provide one last post for Phillyist. [ more › ]     • Thanks for Four Years of Awesome It was a (presumably) cold November day in 2006 when I made my humble debut on Phillyist with a post called Elevating My Frustration. It was about elevator etiquette. I've come a long way since then. I featured interesting Twitter users and hope some of them will follow us into the future at @keypulp. I wrote not one but two posts on the mysterious Toynbee tiles. The local sleuths who spent years investigating them were the subject of a Sundance-winning documentary called Ressurect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. [ more › ] • Photoist Snowventure along the WissahickonPhotographed by: Julia RoweWissahickon Creek [ more › ] • Blogged Around Philly: Farewell Edition Who needs an RSS feed when you have us? The best from this week in the 215 blogosphere... [ more › ] • Photoist [ more › ] • Good Advice From a Bad Person more › ] • Photoist [ more › ] • A Little Friendly Advice For Our South Philly Neighbors As we make our way to work in the aftermath of yet another winter storm with no running buses many of us will be digging out cars and braving the treacherous streets of Philadelphia. Later upon returning home from work far too many people will be faced with the reality that some a-hole stole their perfectly sculpted parking space during the day forcing them to park presumably near the Sports Complex. [ more › ] • ArtIST: Mami Kato As this is Phillyist's last ArtIST post we're pleased to be ending the series with artist Mami Kato. A Japanese citizen Kato was born and raised in Japan before coming to Philadelphia to attend the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts) on a transfer program. After moving back to Japan for a spell she relocated to Philadelphia permanently eighteen years ago. For more insight into the career of this artIST keep reading. [ more › ] • This Week In Philadelphia Theatre Love Lessons From Abu Ghraid a one woman show that opens at Interact this week looks pretty compelling. [ more › ] • • Photoist CapogiroPhotographed by: cheshire smile eats (and drinks)Center City [ more › ] • The 2011 State of the Union Under normal circumstances we here at Phillyist post a video each day that in some way pertains to Philadelphia or its surrounding area. Since all that's really going on today is snow snow freezing rain and more snow we're going to go national instead and share last night's State of the Union address in its entirety in case you missed it or wish to argue with your computer monitor a little more. Whether you're Democrat Republican Independent or a Teabagger take a look. Even if you don't agree with what's being said it's important for you to have an understanding of the political atmosphere in this country right now if only so that you can go complain to Twitter about it later. [ more › ] • Introducing ... KeyPulp! As we teased on Twitter yesterday and revealed to Technically Philly this morning January 31 is not the last you'll be seeing of the Phillyist editors and staff. True Phillyist won't be updated after 5:00 p.m. next Monday but as that song we got stuck in your heads last week goes: "every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." [ more › ] • Phillyist Reads... Eleanor Brown at Chester County Book & Music Company Shakespeare fiends this one's for you! [ more › ] • En Garde! This past Saturday Penn hosted the Philadelphia Invitational a season-opening men's and women's fencing event that saw fencing squads from schools such as Duke and UNC don their plastrons and knickers and do sabered battle in University City. Penn's men's team ranked seventh nationally was totally dominant. They went a perfect 6–0 on the day only coming close to defeat against Duke. Here's a quick video recap with an interview with Penn junior Vidur Kapur. Errol Flynn ain't got shit on these bucklers of swash. [ more › ] • Yo Philly In the News Local student gets to sit next to Michelle Obama local community group wins a grant from the Dept. of Education and more in this morning's news! [ more › ] • Phillyist Playlist: Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield at World Cafe Live What better cure for the Monday blues than a little alt-rock fantasy soap opera of sorts at the World Cafe Live? Tonight we have Evan Dando [MySpace] and Juliana Hatfield [MySpace] two former poster children of the grunge movement with a lot of history together. Both from Boston Hatfield and Dando have gone through various iterations of living together rumored knocking boots (Hatfield says she belongs to "a distinguished though probably small group of girls who can claim the distinction of having said no to going all the way with Evan Dando ... I lost my virginity to Spike Jonze") breaking hearts and making music over the last twenty-five years. They recently reunited for two shows in New York City which then inspired a small fall tour through the East Coast that continues into University City tonight. [ more › ] • Photoist IcingPhotographed by: Jana SheaPhiladelphia [ more › ] • Philly Loves Beer: Last Call As the saying goes all good things must come to an end and this is unfortunately one of those times. While Phillyist has another week this will be the last Philly Loves Beer as I will be in the land of Abita and too much High Life when that happens. So this will be goodbye and as I am horrible at these kind of things I will leave you with other places you can turn to when you need beer info brewing drinking or otherwise. [ more › ] Current Exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art:• Craft Spoken Here • 35mm: Photographs from the Collection • The Art of German Stoneware • Isamu Noguchi at the Philadelphia Museum of Art << Next Page >> |
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