Music

Theater A Flea in Her Ear Mayhem & madcap humor from master farceur Georges Feydeau. Closes 4/28. Hedgerow Theatre, 64 Rose Valley Rd., Media; 610-565-4211. $32; $29 seniors; $10 students. A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry's classic drama, directed by Walter Dallas. Closes 4/21. Arden Theatre, 40 N. 2d St.; 215-922-1122. $36-$48; $15 students. B. Someday Productions: Criminal Genius A father/son crime team try to burn down a restaurant, but encounter a series of problems.

By Caeli Smith I often ride the subway with my violin, and the sight of the instrument's case slung over my shoulder as I squeeze into a crowded compartment tends to spark comments from strangers. "Oh, I played violin for four years in elementary school!" As they reminisce, I begin to understand that they no longer have a relationship with classical music; it's all in the past for them. These conversations, although pleasant, leave me disturbed. If so many people studied classical music as children, why don't they take pleasure in it later in life?

Was Phil Spector actually guilty of the Feb. 3, 2003, murder of Lana Clarkson? That question was posed repeatedly by the media in increasing tones of hysteria over the six years it took for Spector to be tried, retried, found guilty, and sentenced to serve 19 years to life in prison. It's raised yet again in Phil Spector , a fascinating, maddening, and ultimately unsatisfying 90-minute biopic starring Al Pacino as the music producer and Helen Mirren as one of his attorneys, Linda Kenney Baden.

Eric Miller felt he had waited his whole life for Carolina. "She was exceptional by every measure," he said, "smart, full of life, beautiful. " When she died, suddenly, from an epileptic seizure in August 2011, at age 26 and not even two years after their wedding, he was driven to do something in her memory, to find meaning in his grief. So he set out to try something a tad crazy, arranging 50 concerts in 50 states this weekend - including by guitar great Eric Clapton - all to raise epilepsy awareness.

AUSTIN, Texas - Before Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell took the Radio Day Stage at the Austin Convention Center at the South by Southwest music conference last week, WXPN-FM general manager Roger LaMay introduced the duo by talking about their "musical conversation of 40 years. " That conversation began when Harris was recording her first solo album, Pieces of the Sky , which came out in 1975. The album's producer (and her soon-to-be-husband), Brian Ahern, played a song for her by an unknown songwriter called "Bluebird Wine.

I attempted to learn the clarinet in seventh grade - an experience about which I can hardly toot my own horn. But I love music, and admire those who have what it takes to master the art and the craft of making it. Which is why I recently visited the Conservatory of Musical Arts, a private school in Audubon where nearly 350 students are learning to do just that. "I watch them develop, and the better they get and the more intense their achievements, the more they love music," says director and founder Anthony Salicandro.

The Diggity Dudes four-member band, who play hip music for hip kids, are known for their infectious grooves and will bring their show to the World Cafe Live in Wilmington on Saturday. Their songs, combining melody and humor, are about kid-centric topics, but are adult-friendly. In 2011, the title track from their debut album, My Science Project , ranked No. 3 on WXPN's Kids Corner Philadelphia's top songs of the year. The performance starts at 11:30 a.m.   The Diggity Dudes, 11:30 a.m. Saturday at World Cafe Live at the Queen, 500 N. Market St., Wilmington.

AUSTIN, Texas - On Friday afternoon, with the long march that is the South by Southwest Music festival past its halfway point, Sam Beam stood on stage at the Austin Convention Center before a crowd of weary listeners. "Wow, you people must really love music," said Beam, who records as Iron & Wine, during a show cosponsored by Philadelphia's WXPN-FM. "How are you holding up? Do you still love music?" At SXSW, it helps a great deal if you do. From Tuesday until the wee hours of Sunday morning, when Prince, Justin Timberlake, Vampire Weekend, and rapper Kendrick Lamar were among the last on stage, more than 2,000 acts pushed fans to the brink of exhaustion.

Sunday Things change In Horton Foote's moving drama The Trip to Bountiful , set in 1947 Texas, an aging woman in Houston finds her dream of visiting her childhood hometown thwarted by her overprotective son and his wife, and goes on the lam to get there. The show goes on at 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday at the People's Light & Theatre Company , 39 Conestoga Rd., Malvern, and continues on a Tuesday-through-Sunday schedule to April 7. Tickets are $25 to $45. Call 610-644-3500. Epic tale Leave it to Orson Welles to find a way to adapt the pursuit of the white whale for the stage.