Lang Lang + Herbie Hancock = Big Crowd
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Lang Lang + Herbie Hancock = Big Crowd
Peter Dobrin, Inquirer Classical Music Critic
Last night's Philadelphia Orchestra concert at the Mann - hosting pianists Lang Lang and Herbie Hancock - brought in the largest audience of the orchestra's Mann season: 6,800. Of course, as the two-hour, 45-minute show wore on, that number dwindled considerably. Look for the review in the Inquirer tomorrow.
Certainly could have chosen better pieces. We were hoping for more upbeat music, like what Lang Lang played in Tuscany with Andrea Bocelli. The highlight of the evening was the Hungarian Rhapsody played with the Philadelphia Orchestra.— Skylane_Dave
Peter Dobrin is a classical music critic and culture writer for The Inquirer. Since 1989, he has written music reviews, features, news and commentary for the paper, covering such topics as the Philadelphia Museum of Art at the Venice Biennale, expansion of the Curtis Institute of Music, the Philadelphia Orchestra's bankruptcy declaration in 2011, Philadelphia's evolving performing arts center and the general health of arts and culture.
Dobrin was a French horn player. He earned an undergraduate degree in performance from the University of Miami, and received a master's degree in music criticism from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with Elliott Galkin. He has no time to practice today.
