Monday, May 26, 2025
Yannick Nézet-Séguin continues to champion Florence Price by pairing her Piano Concerto in One Movement with Beethoven’s Ninth, that blockbuster of the classical music canon, heard here …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:59AMMonday, April 14, 2025
Curtis Opera Theatre took to the Forrest Theatre stage for a high-energy production of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, featuring jaw-dropping voices from the next generation of opera artists.…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:24PMMonday, April 7, 2025
Whether or not it was intended, a spring program including Stravinsky, Bartók, and contemporary Canadian composer Barbara Assiginaak was a welcome reflection on musicians who have faced or …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:01PMMonday, March 10, 2025
Under guest conductor Osmo Vänskä, the Philadelphia Orchestra transfixed the audience with Beethoven’s Third after a splendid rendition of Ravel’s Piano Concerto for Left Hand and Mich…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:57PMMonday, January 20, 2025
What goes on as the Philadelphia Orchestra, under the
direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, prepares for a performance of Mahler’s Symphony
No. 9? Linda Holt visits to learn more about a pr…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:31PMMonday, October 7, 2024
Mahler’s Third, the longest symphony in the standard repertoire, got an exciting, multifaceted performance from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, alongside soloist Joy…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:56AMThursday, May 2, 2024
Review of Opera Philadelphia's inclusive Madame Butterfly, April 28, 2024, published in Broad Street Review:
https://www.broadstreetreview.com/reviews/opera-philadelphia-presents-puccin…
SOURCE: Classical Rave at 11:34AMTuesday, April 30, 2024
Opera is grappling with the iconic creations of
Giacomo Puccini: can we reverse harmful depictions of marginalized people while
honoring the work’s integrity? Opera Philadelphia finds a wa…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:01PMMonday, March 18, 2024
The Philadelphia Orchestra teamed with conductor Fabio Luisi, the Mendelssohn
Chorus of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Boys Choir & Chorale, and Philadelphia Girls Choir for a much-anticipat…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:56PMThursday, February 29, 2024
Philadelphia-born singer Marian Anderson is being honored as she deserved with the rededication of Verizon Hall in her name in June 2024. The announcement was made in the hall's home in th…
SOURCE: Classical Rave at 01:08PMMonday, February 19, 2024
Superstar American violinist Joshua Bell drew a crowd to a Philadelphia Orchestra program including Chausson, Vieuxtemps, and Brahms, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. Linda Holt reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:28PMTuesday, January 30, 2024
A sumptuous and complex program from the Philadelphia Orchestra paired a world premiere by Mason Bates with Luis Ernesto Peña Laguna’s Oraison for chorus and orchestra, and Brahms’s mas…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:39PMMonday, January 8, 2024
Top American violinist Gil Shaham joined the Philadelphia Orchestra for two Mozart violin concertos, plus two rarely performed short works, combining technical wizardry with personal grace a…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:43PMMonday, October 16, 2023
The bassoon gets the glory it deserves in
the world premiere of Clarice Assad’s Terra, Concerto for
Bassoon and Orchestra with soloist Daniel Matsukawa, joining a Philadelphia Orchestra pr…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:30AMMonday, September 25, 2023
For its Festival O23, Opera Philadelphia presents a standout production of Verdi’s tragic opera, Simon Boccanegra. Linda Holt reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:44PMTuesday, May 16, 2023
The Philadelphia Orchestra gives its first full rendition of composer-in-residence Gabriela Lena Frank’s Walkabout: Concerto for Orchestra, and a thrilling rendition of Berlioz’s Symphon…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:39PMWednesday, May 10, 2023
Reprinted from ConcertoNet.com - Review by Linda Holt of Bruckner's Ninth with Te Deum as the final movement:
Philadelphia
Verizon Hall05/05/2023 - & May 6, 2023Anton Bruckner: Chri…
SOURCE: Classical Rave at 04:53PMSunday, April 30, 2023
Champion, Terence Blanchard’s new work at the
Metropolitan Opera, has been getting a lot of press lately. It’s the first
opera about a boxer, with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green in the …
SOURCE: Classical Rave at 09:59AMMonday, April 24, 2023
Here is a link to my review appearing today in ConcertoNet, the international classical network.
https://www.concertonet.com/scripts/cd.php?ID_cd=4974
SOURCE: Classical Rave at 10:25AMTuesday, April 4, 2023
The Philadelphia Orchestra teams with The Crossing for the world premiere of John Luther Adams’s poignant Vespers of the Blessed Earth, and conducting fellow Austin Chanu debuts in a spiri…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:10PMTuesday, March 21, 2023
Invictus by L.L. Holt (Harvard Square Editions, 2019) was named a Finalist in the international Next Generation Indie Book Awards for 2021. Also known as the Indie Book Awards, the literar…
SOURCE: Classical Rave at 06:23PM Musician profile featured the Broad Street Review (Philadelphia) March 16, 2023, edition:
http://bit.ly/42hWhSX
Photo by E.G. Schempf
SOURCE: Classical Rave at 06:20PMWednesday, March 15, 2023
Linda Holt profiles Kairy Koshoeva, an award-winning pianist who hails from Kyrgyzstan, as she prepares for a recital this week in Philadelphia.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:47AMTuesday, March 7, 2023
http://bit.ly/3Y5vqWP
Review in Broad Street Review (Philadelphia, PA) March 2023.
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SOURCE: Classical Rave at 07:21PMMonday, February 27, 2023
The Philadelphia Orchestra made an unannounced observance of one year of the war against Ukraine, in this program featuring pianist Yefim Bronfman and a US premiere by Elena Firsova. Linda H…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:43PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
https://concertonet.com/scripts/cd.php?ID_cd=4941
Excruciatingly slow and oddly pointless. Can this still be Beethoven? Review in ConcertoNet.com
SOURCE: Classical Rave at 04:06PMFriday, November 4, 2022
https://virtualvenue.feelitlive.com/fa8bac77-5d4b-445c-bcbc-d44f094bbc50
Here is a link to this lively, laugh-filled interview program conducted weekly on the Internet by Win Derman. Alter…
SOURCE: Classical Rave at 06:54PMTuesday, June 7, 2022
The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, and soloists Angel Blue, Mihoko Fujimura, Limmie Pulliam, and Ryan Speedo Green perform Beethoven for Americans. (Photo by Je…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:27AMTuesday, May 24, 2022
Lavishly illustrated and full of anecdotes and surprising tidbits about people and places, Beethoven in Beijing deserves a place in the home of every music-lover and every student of the eve…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:00PMWednesday, October 27, 2021
Organist Peter Richard Conte commands the mighty Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ to conjure the soundtrack to the 1925 version of The Phantom of the Opera. Linda Holt preview
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:00AMFriday, October 15, 2021
For its first Digital Stage concert of the new season, the Philadelphia Orchestra performed Florence Price's Symphony No. 4 in D minor, a masterpiece of musical art discovered after the comp…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:02PM 
