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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Phila. Orchestra and Longwood - perfect together
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You take your chances when you mix music and nature - what with threats of heat, rain, and the local entomology. But a pastoral grace held sway over the Philadelphia Orchestra's return to Longwood Gardens Saturday evening, bolstering the notion that this recent (re)marriage of venue and ensemble might be the best thing to happen to both in some time.
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Philly Orchestra's legal fees mount in bankruptcy case
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The Philadelphia Orchestra Association accumulated $682,568 in legal fees and other expenses associated with its bankruptcy petition in the first six weeks after the filing, court documents show.
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Orchestra dissonance on pensions
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Will the Philadelphia Orchestra Association be permitted to end its participation in the current musicians' pension plan? And if so, will the association be compelled to tap its $120 million endowment to satisfy the estimated $23 million cost of withdrawing from the pension fund?
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Rare view of orchestra: 88G for moving expenses?
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In a snapshot of its finances, the Philadelphia Orchestra Association claimed $16 million in assets and $700,000 in liabilities in a filing attached to its Chapter 11 petition.
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Orchestra announces a $45 million start on solvency plan
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The Philadelphia Orchestra Association announced an aid package Wednesday worth a potential $45 million - a substantial start to its $160 million drive to help the orchestra emerge from bankruptcy and become stable.
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Retuning the Philadelphia Orchestra: A pitch for Ormandy's ideas
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If the authors of the Philadelphia Orchestra's newly unveiled strategic plan intended to craft a document with generous wiggle room, they succeeded. No matter which artists and what kind of repertoire and concert formats materialize in the coming years, president Allison B. Vulgamore will be able to point to the plan and say the orchestra had been open in its intentions.
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Orchestra CEO is being paid $597,000
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How much money should the president of a major orchestra be paid? And should the person at the helm when an orchestra slips into bankruptcy be paid less for failing to keep finances afloat - or more, since managing such a crisis is tough?
