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Philadelphia Orchestra/Nathalie Stutzmann in West Palm Beach — Brahms’s First Symphony and, with Gil Shaham, Violin Concerto

In this first of two concerts at the Kravis Center, The Philadelphia Orchestra and Nathalie Stutzmann played Brahms. Following the Violin Concerto’s powerful introduction, which featured fine oboe and bassoon solos, Gil Shaham masterfully traversed the violin’s first entry. He engaged in delightful conversations with the violas and later with horn and various groupings of …

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Soprano Angel Blue performing with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting The Philadelphia Orchestra and at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Steve J Sherman

Philadelphia Orchestra/Yannick Nézet-Séguin at Carnegie Hall, with Angel Blue – Matthew Aucoin, Samuel Barber, Valerie Coleman, Florence Price

In an imaginative line-up of old and new Americana, the concert opened with the Suite by Matthew Aucoin crafted from his 2020 opera, Eurydice. At the Met, where the opera – a retelling of the Orpheus myth from Eurydice’s point of view – played last fall, Aucoin’s richly orchestrated score impressed, but in this abstract the music’s wide-ranging …

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