Steve Smith
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Jürg Frey – Grizzana and other pieces 2009-2014 – Ensemble Grizzana (Another Timbre)(Petit fragment de paysage – version one; Fragile Balance; Ombres exactes san dureté; A Memory of Perfection; Extended Circular Music No. 8; Grizzana; Petit fragment de paysage – version two; Petit fragment de paysage – version three; Lieues d'ombres; Tendre enchaînement des valeurs;…
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John Weise of Sissy Spacek, by Amoeba Records NEW MUSIC BOSTONJuly 2015 (Posted July 11, and very much an attempt in progress this month…) We're late, and with more cause than usual. Rather than the characteristic attempt to catalog all of the myriad, wonderful new-music offerings coming up in Boston and the surrounding area,…
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Grateful Dead – Dave's Picks, Volume 1: The Mosque, Richmond, VA 5/25/77 (Grateful Dead/Rhino) Benjamin Finger – Motion Reverse (Shimmering Moods) Jay Batzner – as if to each other… – R. Andrew Lee (Irritable Hedgehog < Bandcamp) Skogen – ist gefallen in den Schnee (Another Timbre) Skogen – Despairs Had Governed Me Too Long (Another…
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A Gossamer Bit by Allison Cameron and Contact King Crimson – Park West, Chicago, IL, Nov. 10, 1981 (DGMLive) Steve Reich – Music for 18 Musicians – Steve Reich and Musicians (Nonesuch) King Crimson – Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, Nov. 10, 1981 (DGMLive) Grateful Dead – The Ark, Boston, MA, April 21, 1969 (Archive.org)…
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Chris Squire, by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images Utterly devastated beyond words to have to report the sad news of the passing of my dear friend, bandmate and inspiration Chris Squire. #yes — Geoffrey Downes (@asiageoff) June 28, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Farewell, Chris Squire. I came to Yes late, but made up for lost time, and I…
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King Crimson – The Savoy, New York, NY, Nov. 7, 1981, first house (DGMLive) Jennifer Koh – Bach & Beyond, Part 2 (Cedille)(Johann Sebastian Bach – Sonata No. 1 in G minor; Partita No. 1 in B minor; Béla Bartók – Sonata for Solo Violin; Kaija Saariaho – Frises) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No.…
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x-ray three: Amorosa Sensitiva by Benjamin Finger Lamb of God – New American Gospel (Prosthetic) King Crimson – The Savoy, New York, NY, Nov. 6, 1981, second house (DGMLive) Jean Sibelius – Overture in A minor; Kuolema – complete incidental music; Two Songs from Twelfth Night; Kung Kristian II – complete incidental music – Pia…
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King Crimson – The Savoy, New York, NY, Nov. 6, 1981, first house (DGMLive) Michael Bates – Northern Spy (Stereoscopic) David Bowie – Nothing Has Changed (Columbia/Legacy) Grateful Dead – Dave's Picks, Vol. 1: The Mosque, Richmond, VA 5/25/77 (Grateful Dead) Sly & the Family Stone – Live at the Fillmore East October 4th &…
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Matthew Aucoin, by Yoon S. Byun/Boston Globe NEW MUSIC BOSTONJune 2015 (Updated June 1) 1 Chris Watford + Transient CanvasPresented by Equilibrium Concert SeriesMusic by Beau Kenyon, Timothy McCormack, Zach Sheets, and Scott WollschlegerDavis Square Theatre, 255 Elm St., Somerville8 p.m.$10More information 2 American Repertory TheaterMatthew Aucoin, CrossingRod Gilfrey, Alexander Lewis, Davone Tines, Jennifer…
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Yes – Piazza della Riforma, Lugano, Switzerland, July 8, 2004 (YouTube) Yes – Boston Garden, Boston, MA, June 19, 1979 (audience recording < YouTube) Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 8 – Berlin Philharmonic/Günter Wand (RCA Red Seal) Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 9 – New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein (Sony Classical) Anton Bruckner – Symphony No.…
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Animals Out of Place by Jonathan Marmor Jason Lescalleet – This Is What I Do, Vol. 8 (Glistening Examples < Bandcamp) Jonathan Marmor – Animals Out of Place (self-released < Bandcamp)(Cattle in the Woods – Johnny Chang, Joe Drew, Quentin Tolimieri, Devin Maxwell, James Moore, Travis Just; Animal Play – Mimitabu; Penguin Atlas of African…
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Jack DeJohnette (center) and Made in Chicago, by Wes Orshoski/ECM Records Even when looking back, Jack DeJohnette forges aheadBoston GlobeMay 17, 2015 For the featured jazz story in today's Summer Arts Preview issue of the Boston Globe, a brief but event-filled article about jazz drummer, bandleader, and composer Jack DeJohnette, who brings his legend-studded quintet…
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John Luther Adams – Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing – Apollo Chamber Orchestra/JoAnn Falletta (New World) King Crimson – Painters Mill Theatre, Owings Mills, MD, Nov. 4, 1981 (DGMLive) Grisha Shakhnes – All this trouble for nothing (Glistening Examples) Martin Scherzinger – African Math – Tom Rosenkranz, Chris Gross, Jen Choi (New Focus) Susan…
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Kayo Dot – Choirs of the Eye (Tzadik) Kansas – Power (MCA) Kansas – In the Spirit of Things (MCA) King Crimson – Live at the Orpheum (DGM) Grateful Dead – Dave's Picks, Vol. 14: Academy of Music, New York, NY 3/26/72 (Grateful Dead/Rhino) Grateful Dead – Dave's Picks 2015 Bonus Disc (Grateful Dead/Rhino) "The…
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Keith Lockhart, by Suzanne Kreiter/Boston Globe "After 20 years, Keith Lockhart keeping the Pops youthful"Boston GlobeMay 5, 2015 My front-page story about Keith Lockhart and his eventful journey to the Boston Pops, with which institution he celebrates his 20th anniversary in a spring season that starts tonight (May 6) with a swanky concert featuring Bernadette…
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Georges Aperghis, by Charlotte Oswald NEW MUSIC BOSTONMay 2015 (Updated May 13) 1 Boston Conservatory Wind EnsembleDavid Fulmer, Rotaries; Edgard Varèse, Déserts; Ron Nelson, Rocky Point Holiday; plus music by RespighiEric Hewitt, conductorBoston Conservatory Theater, 8 the Fenway, Boston8 p.m.FREEMore information Alisa Weilerstein & Inon BarnatanJoseph Hallman, DreamLog; plus works by Beethoven, Schubert, and RachmaninoffPresented…
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Live at ESS 12/6/2013 by cinchel Sebastian Fagerlund – Violin Concerto ("Darkness in Light"); Ignite – Pekka Kuusisto, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Hannu Lintu (BIS) Kayo Dot – Choirs of the Eye (Tzadik) Los Angeles Percussion Quartet – The Year Before Yesterday (Sono Luminus)(William Kraft – Fore!; Shaun Naidoo – The Year Before Yesterday; Erik Griswold…
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Album review: Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld, Never were the way she wasBoston GlobeApril 28, 2015 Proclaimed "the Neil deGrasse Tyson of the avant-garde saxophone world" in a concert review by some wag who used to write for The New York Times, Colin Stetson has made a beautiful new record with his Arcade Fire colleague…
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