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Year 35, No. 24
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Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Concert February 23 With Special Guest Violinist Francesca dePasquale he talented members of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra will per form at the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall, located at Broad and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, PA on February 23, 2020 at 3 p.m. The ensemble, conducted by Maestro Louis Scaglione, has earned nationwide acclaim for their advanced talent.
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Emerging Philadelphia Celebrates Area Artists at The Galleries at Moore
Philadelphia Youth Orchestra presents a concert Sunday, February 23 with special guest and PYO alumna, violinist Francesca dePasquale. Photo/Alexandra DeFurio
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The afternoon’s program will open with Barber: Medea’s Dance of Vengeance, then proceed with Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 and conclude with Copland: Symphony No. 3. The music is suitable for an audience of all ages. Francesca dePasquale will be the soloist for Shastakovich. Described by critics as “scintillating” and celebrated for her “rich, expressive playing” The Galleries at Moore will host a walk-and-talk event (Musical America), violinist with the exhibiting artists of “Emerging Philadelphia” on Francesca dePasquale is the First Prize winner of the 2010 Irving M. Klein International String Wednesday, February 26 at 6 p.m. Matt A. Osborn, Competition and recipient of the prestigious 2014-2016 career grant from the Leonore Annen“Untitled,” 2019, ink and marker on paper, 30 x 22 in. berg Fellowship Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts. Earning the 2015 Classical RecordCourtesy of the artist. ing Foundation Young Artist Award, her self-titled debut album released in March of 2016 and accompanying recital tour was praised for “sincerity, intensity” and “individual voice” he Galleries at Moore will host a walk-and-talk event (Philadelphia Inquirer), and “immaculate and discreet phrasing” (Strad Magazine). An active with the exhibiting artists of Emerging Philadelphia on chamber musician, dePasquale, the violinist of the Aletheia Piano Trio, is on the roster for Wednesday, February 26 at 6 p.m. The event is free Manhattan Chamber Players, and performs frequently with Chameleon Arts Ensemble and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She joins the violin faculty at Oberlin Conservatory in the Fall to the public and is wheelchair accessible. Emerging Philaof 2020. Additionally, she is assistant violin and chamber music faculty for the Juilliard School delphia will be on view during regular gallery hours through Pre-College Program, and on the faculty of the Heifetz International Music Institute. She is an March 14, 2020.
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Folk Duo The Kennedys to Perform February 27 ansdowne Folk Club presents folk duo The Kennedys on Thursday, February 27, 2020, at the Twentieth Century Club, 84 S. Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, PA. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $17 when purchased in advance online or with an advanced phone reservation and $20 without an advance reservation. Tickets on sale now. At well over a million miles of roadwork, including two stints as members of Nanci Griffith’s Blue Moon Orchestra, Pete and Maura Kennedy show no signs of slowing down either on tour or in the creative realm. Originally based in Austin, Texas, they spent a few years in the Washington DC area before moving to the East Village in New York City, where they have been based for most of the last two decades. The Kennedys are known nationwide as the hosts of the late lamented Dharma Café pro-
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gram on Sirius Satellite Radio, and on Broadway, they are regular cast members of Theatre Within’s annual tribute to John Lennon—working in that capacity with Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Jackson Browne, Cyndi Lauper and a host of others. See folk duo The Kennedys perform on Thursday, February 27, 2020, at the Twentieth Century Club, 84 S. Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, PA. Photo/Hub Wilson Life on the road and time spent in the creative ecosystem of the Village have informed their songwriting over the course of 14 duo albums and half a dozen side projects, and Safe Until Tomorrow is true to that tradition. What sets the album apart is the inclusion of several anthemic, rocking songs of social consciousness that convey See Folk Duo The Kennedys to Perform page 3