Philadelphia, USA: The US city with extraordinary art (it's not New York)

By Lance Richardson
Updated August 24 2015 - 10:08am, first published 10:04am
The Philadelphia Museum of Art houses more than 300,000 works spanning 2000 years. Its steps were made famous in the <i>Rocky</i> movies.  Photo: B Krist/ GPTMC
The Philadelphia Museum of Art houses more than 300,000 works spanning 2000 years. Its steps were made famous in the <i>Rocky</i> movies. Photo: B Krist/ GPTMC

A silver organ hangs against the wood of Verizon Hall like a cameo brooch. Members of the orchestra gather on the stage beneath, flicking out coat tails on sharp tuxedos, or adjusting hemlines and fiddling with sheet music. The audience is silent, watchful. And then the conductor steps forward, followed by a soloist named Sarah Chang. When she begins to play, her music is so powerful it seems to flow through her body like an electrical current.

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