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• From mambo to Mozart

  I remember attending performances at the old New World space on Lincoln Road, which is now H&M, before I knew the difference between Mozart and mambo. Now, I know a little bit more about music, but every time I go to the New World Center, I learn something new from [...]

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• Janet Echelman’s ‘Pulse’ will add unique dimension to Dilworth Plaza

  By Linda Harris, Center City Philadelphia

  Accessible fountains in city parks draw people of all ages, as the Center City District experienced once again when it transformed Sister Cities Park and reopened it in 2012.

  This 1.3-acre park at 18th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway was an abandoned and forgotten park [...]

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• What does it take to be a ballerina?

  Jamie Dee in last Fall’s performance of “Limitless.” Photograph by Christopher Record.

  What is it like to be a ballet dancer? Pushing your body to extremes? Beginning a professional career while in your teens? These questions popped up time and again over the last few months as I watched the [...]

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• University of Delaware @ Crane presents “Surface as Signifier”

  The University of Delaware Art Department’s space in the Crane Arts Building (UD@Crane) has a new nine-artist exhibition underway that seeks to examine the role of surfaces in visual creations. The show “Surface as Signifier,” curated by Peg Curtin and Bruce Garrity, manages to delve into [...]

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• From Basel to Miami nonstop: Pedro Memelsdorff, new regent of the Schola Cantorum

  By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer

  He comes to Miami directly from Basel and has nothing to do with Art Basel, but rather with a diametrically opposed and equally valuable art form. Since January, Argentine Pedro Memelsdorff has been at the helm of the famous Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, [...]

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• VocalEssence WITNESS remembers Marian Anderson

  By Elissa Weller, VocalEssence

  “Raise your hand if you ever saw Marian Anderson perform live!” someone shouts and thirty or so hands shoot into the air. This brief meeting took place amongst audience members at WITNESS: Marian Anderson, a concert paying tribute to the celebrated African American contralto’s life as [...]

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• Opera makes reading fun again

  By Stefanie Hew, Florida Grand Opera

  From maracas to the triangle, every child has the opportunity to play a part in the story with Florida Grand Opera’s Read Along, Sing a Song program – a free literacy workshop series that incorporates music into the reading process. In partnership with Miami-Dade [...]

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• Air Sweet Air: closing a chapter and re-imagining what a gallery is and can be

  Cheryl Wilgren Clyne, “Air Sweet Air” — the gallery’s namesake. Image courtesy of the artist

  “We Have All the Time in the World,” Air Sweet Air’s last show of 2012, was also the gallery’s final event in its Lowertown space. It was a joint exhibition, by gallery proprietor [...]

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• Inside the Fabric Workshop and Museum’s Daniel Arsham exhibitions

  By Michele Bregande, The Fabric Workshop and Museum

  The Fabric Workshop and Museum’s (FWM) current exhibitions, Daniel Arsham: Reach Ruin and Daniel Arsham X Jonah Bokaer: Study for Occupant (on view until March 17, 2013) was critically debated as part of The Review Panel Philadelphia, a yearly series of four panel [...]

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• Experience art, music and theatre at ARTi Gras

  Although Mardi Gras is over and the last king cake has been eaten, you can still experience art, music and theatre – New Orleans style – at ARTi Gras on Saturday, March 2 from 5-10 p.m. in Downtown Akron.

  Downtown Akron Partnership (DAP) continues its event series, Downtown Art Works, in [...]

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