Steve Smith
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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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King Crimson – The ConstruKction of Light (Virgin) Cecil Taylor – The Complete Cecil Taylor in Berlin '88 (FMP < Bandcamp; due May 5) Project X – Heaven and Earth (EGM) Mercyful Fate – Don't Break the Oath (Roadrunner) Koes Barat – Koes Barat (Sub Pop) Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 29 in…
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Jason Lescalleet and Olivia Block: Sonorous Vessels3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NHApril 18, 2015 Sound artists Jason Lescalleet and Olivia Block collaborated for the first time in the world premiere of Sonorous Vessels, a new piece inspired by and extending upon Alvin Lucier's Music for Piano with Amplified Sonorous Vessels, on Saturday night at 3S Artspace in…
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King Crimson – Thrak (Virgin) Taake – Stridens Hus (Candlelight < Bandcamp) Taake – Noregs Vaapen (Candlelight < Bandcamp) John Mackey – Wine-Dark Sea – University of Texas Wind Ensemble/Jerry F. Junkin (YouTube) Conrad Schnitzler – Ballet Statique (Con) (M=minimal) Arnold Schoenberg – Concerto for Piano; Concerto for Violin – Peter Serkin, Pierre Amoyal, London…
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Porcupine Tree – Signify (Kscope) Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier (Sanctuary) King Crimson – Beat (Virgin) Radu Malfatti – darenootodesuka – Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble (b-boim) Fraufraulein – Extinguishment (Another Timbre) Robert Rich – Filaments (Soundscape) Radu Malfatti – Tokyo Sextet (2005): Electronic Version – Taku Unami (Slub Music) King Crimson – Three of a…
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Olivia Block, by Richard Termine for The New York Times Newer Music bonus track As reported for my Newer Music column in the Boston Globe yesterday, sound artist Jason Lescalleet is launching a quarterly duo-concert residency at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, NH, this Saturday night with the world premiere of Sonorous Vessels, a composition jointly…
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Jason Lescalleet, by Tim Bugbee "Lescalleet fosters community on CD and new concert series"Boston GlobeApril 14, 2015 The sixth episode in the continuing saga of Newer Music focuses on Jason Lescalleet, a performer whose work made an impression on me years ago and still does. I recall vividly instances of Lescalleet's visceral, almost violent approach…
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Book review: Philip Glass, 'Words Without Music'Boston GlobeApril 12, 2015 Scanning the many reviews of Philip Glass's new memoir since I filed my own report last week, I think it's safe to say that we're mostly all on the same page, so to speak: charmed by Glass's early history, less than overwhelmed by his travel…
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King Crimson – Red (DGM) Ludwig van Beethoven – Violin Concerto; String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 130: V. Cavatina – Adagio molto espressivo; Grosse Fuge – Yehudi Menuhin, Berlin Philharmonic/Wilhelm Furtwängler (Archipel) Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 10 – Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vassily Petrenko (Naxos) Benjamin Britten – Sinfonia da Requiem – New Philharmonia Orchestra/Benjamin…
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King Crimson – Islands (DGM) King Crimson – Earthbound (Virgin) François Couperin – Les Nations – Juilliard Baroque (Naxos) Yotam Haber – We Were All; Last Skin – Contemporaneous; On Leaving Brooklyn – Mireille Asselin, Meg Guth, Javier Abreu, Scott Dispensa, Harumi Rhodes; Torus – Mivos Quartet; From the Book of Maintenance and Sustenance –…
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Yarn/Wire, by Bobby Fisher This almost was called The Rest Is News. Among the great many kindnesses that Alex Ross has shown me during our years of collegial labor are his occasional nods to my notorious list-making penchant. Mulling what to call this latest addition to my own blog, in which I'll round up some…
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Roger Sessions – Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 – Columbus Symphony Orchestra/Christian Badea (New World) Roger Sessions – Symphonies Nos. 6, 7 & 9 – American Composers Orchestra/Dennis Russell Davies (Argo) Roger Sessions – Symphony No. 8 – American Symphony Orchestra/Leon Botstein (New World) Beat Furrer – Aer – Trio Catch; …cold and calm and…
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The Nile Project, by Kayana Szymczak for the Boston Globe The Nile Project at Tsai Performance Center, March 27, 2015Boston GlobeMarch 30, 2015 I'm reasonably sure that I didn't use the word fad when I filed this review, since that term doesn't accurately portray my feelings about artistic and cultural fusion, which can be a…
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So, Andrew Norman's "Play" might be the best orchestral work that the 21st century has seen thus far — Will Robin (@seatedovation) December 20, 2014 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js We have Andrew Norman to thank, and Will Robin, too, for Symphomania, the 24-hour marathon of 21st-century orchestral music that web radio station Q2 Music streamed on March 24…
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