“Monday noon at the Reading Terminal Market you could nab a heritage corn cookie or order your 23-pound free-range Tom for Thanksgiving while listening to Mendelssohn,” writes Peter Dobrin in Tuesday’s (10/24) Philadelphia Inquirer. “Amid the din of the market, a string quartet from the Philadelphia Orchestra played for an hour. It was just one of more than two dozen free appearances across the city and suburbs in which musicians of the orchestra, for the third year in a row, organized to thank listeners for their support throughout the year.… About two dozen core listeners gathered, with one man apparently knowing enough about music to turn the page for violist Kirsten Johnson…. Other kinds of ensembles spent the day engaged in hour-long acts of musical place-making—a cello duo at Elixr Coffee off Walnut Street, a percussion group near 23rd and South Streets, a woodwind quintet at the Haddon Township library … [a] brass trio playing at the Parc restaurant… For violinist Elina Kalendarova, the noise of the terminal offered the virtue of being able to play without fear of being under the microscope. She said of the experience: ‘It definitely had that quality of being uninhibited.’ ”
Posted October 24, 2017
