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Peter Dobrin is a classical music critic for The Inquirer. Since 1989, he has written music reviews, features, news and commentary for the paper, covering such topics as the Philadelphia Orchestra's 64-day strike in 1996, the development of a new performing arts center in Philadelphia, changes in the classical-recording industry and the finances of Philadelphia's arts organizations.
He has also covered the Philadelphia Orchestra's tours in Asia, South America and the United States. 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. His work has also appeared in the Baltimore Sun and the Washington Post.
Read his blog "ArtsWatch" to find out who's making news, noise and splash in the Philadelphia arts world and beyond.
Email Peter at pdobrin@phillynews.com
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The general public gets its first views of the Center City iteration of the Barnes Foundation Saturday, but cultural leaders and donors to the new building on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway saw, and feted, their handiwork Friday night.
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Review: Dutoit bids a dazzling ‘Au revoir’
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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.
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Curtis' year-end crescendo
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New graduates embarked on careers, the success of a new dorm- but still, there was sadness from the loss of a fellow student.
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Philly becomes Elektra
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The Philadelphia Orchestra put on an Elektra that, by omitting costumes and sets, burned a deep hole in the theory that the eye has any legitimate claim on the genre.
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Critic’s Notebook: ‘Peter Pan,’ a ballet enigma
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This strange ballet has been playing out in my head recently: The dancers come out on stage and move in complete silence. After a minute or two, audience members begin to shift in their seats. Children lose focus and start asking “When will it be over?” Five or 10 minutes of this, and people are asking for their money back. This would only happen, of course, if, for some bizarre reason, a ballet company decided it no longer needed music. It couldn’t really happen, but Pennsylvania Ballet raises the question with its marketing materials for Peter Pan, which opens Thursday. Postcards and advertisements mention Trey McIntyre as choreographer of the company premiere. But if you want to know whether there’s music, you have to go the ballet’s website. There you learn that there is music, and that it was written by Edward Elgar.
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Deal clears way to end orchestra bankruptcy
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Resolving the most quarrelsome aspect of its bankruptcy, the Philadelphia Orchestra Association has settled with the national musicians' pension fund that had threatened expensive and time-consuming litigation over the orchestra's withdrawal from it.
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Review: Argumentative van Zweden leads Philadelphia Orchestra
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Mild-mannered he is not. If Jaap van Zweden were a dinner-party guest, he might dominate table chatter, slide headlong into controversy, and hold forth in a self-important if good-humored tone. As it was, leading the Philadelphia Orchestra in Friday night’s all-Russian program, the 51-year-old Dutchman was one of those guests trailing disagreement in his wake while still managing to leave you feeling more stimulated than riled.
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Philadelphia Orchestra bankruptcy drags on
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Peter Dobrin: With the Philly Orchestra still in Chapter 11, questions remain of how it will survive when out of bankruptcy.
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Opera Company on its way to reinvention
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Declaring an early victory on the strategic plan that led it safely away from the brink of collapse, the Opera Company of Philadelphia is setting its sights on new and more ambitious artistic and financial goals.
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