Steve Smith
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Yarn/Wire/Currents Vol. 1 by Yarn/Wire A Winged Victory for the Sullen – A Winged Victory for the Sullen (Kranky) King Crimson – Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 31, 1981 (DGMLive) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 5 in A (K. 319); Henri Vieuxtemps – Violin Concerto No. 4 in D minor – Hilary Hahn,…
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Tania León, by Niels Leiser NEW MUSIC BOSTONApril 2015 (Updated March 22) 1 Pierluigi Billone residencyVerticale Muto; Mani. MattaMike Williams, percussion; [sound icon]College of Fine Arts Concert Hall, Boston University, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston8 p.m.Free admissionMore information Philip GlassWords Without Music: A Conversation with Philip GlassBerklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Ave., Boston7 p.m.$30, includes signed…
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"A Winged Victory for the Sullen celebrates serendipity"Boston GlobeMarch 21, 2015 The fifth installment of my monthly Newer Music column is out today, and covers the ambient cum post-classical chamber music duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie, from Stars of the Lid, and Dustin O'Halloran, of Devics. The duo and their…
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King Crimson – Live at the Marquee, August 10, 1971 (King Crimson Collectors' Club/DGM) Peter Ablinger – Drei Minuten für Orchester (from Altar) – SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg/Sylvain Cambreling (YouTube) Helmut Lachenmann – Schreiben – London Sinfonietta/Brad Lubman (YouTube) Isabel Mundry – Penelopes Atem – Salome Kammer, Teodoro Anzellotti, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg/Sylvain Cambreling…
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Pierluigi Billone – 1+1=1 – Petra Stump, Heinz-Peter Linshalm (Kairos < YouTube) Pierluigi Billone – ME A AN – Frank Wörner, ensemble recherche/Peter Hirsch; ITI KE MI – Barbara Maurer (Stradivarius) Pierluigi Billone – Mani. De Leonardis; Mani. Mono; Mani. Matta – Adam Weisman (ein_klang) Jackie McLean – Let Freedom Ring (Blue Note) Dire Straits –…
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The author, daughter, and Lee Konitz, by Limor Tomer Annina didn't make it quite to the end of the lovely set that Lee Konitz, a saxophonist who actually warrants the tag "legendary," played with pianist Dan Tepfer at the Museum of Fine Arts yesterday afternoon. Much as I would have liked to hear it, I…
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Virgil Thomson "…reviews, though couched in opinion—which is what makes them either illuminating or maddening but also, one hopes, compelling and worth debating—are fundamentally reportage. They are the chronicles of the cultural world, accounts of who did what on a given night, in a given hall, before hundreds or thousands of people interested enough to…
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Joanna Wallfisch and Dan Tepfer, by Josh Goleman "Wallfisch, Tepfer learn to collaborate on CD and onstage"Boston GlobeMarch 13, 2015 Singer Joanna Wallfisch, who describes herself as having been a "bad student," learns to slow down and pay closer attention to the art she creates. Pianist Dan Tepfer, a self-proclaimed nerd engaged by virtuosity in…
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King Crimson – Live at the Orpheum (DGM) Imperial Triumphant – Abyssal Gods (Aural Music) King Crimson – Live at the Marquee, 1969 (King Crimson Collectors' Club/DGM) King Crimson – Live at Jacksonville, 1972 (King Crimson Collectors' Club/DGM) Francis Poulenc – Sept Chansons; Mass in G; Quatre motets pour le temps de pénitence; Quatre motets…
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Arneis Quartet, by Liz Lender The Arneis Quartet – violinists Heather Braun and Rose Drucker, violist Daniel Doña, and cellist Agnes Kim – embarks on a fascinating literary and musical excursion this month at Boston University's Morse Auditorium. The quartet's March 31 concert, "Poetry and Music: T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, Beethoven and Gubaidulina," is the…
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Cameron Carpenter, by Sean Proctor/Boston Globe Cameron Carpenter at Sanders Theatre, March 5, 2015Boston GlobeMarch 9, 2015
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Christian Wolff NEW MUSIC BOSTONMarch 2015 (Updated March 21) 8 Boston Civic SymphonyThomas Oboe Lee, Trumpet Concerto (world premiere); Stephen Burns, Fanfare for Freedom; plus works by Honegger and BerliozStephen Burns, trumpet; Taichi Fukumura, conductorJordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston2 p.m.$15-$40More information Brand New Music/New Music BrandeisEmily Koh, smidgen(S); Victoria Cheah, Tell:Abschied; Gleb Kanasevich, suono…
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Watch this space…
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Johannes Brahms – Serenades – Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra/Nicholas McGegan (Philharmonia Baroque) Egg – The Civil Surface (Caroline) Genesis – We Can't Dance (Atlantic/Rhino) Autumn of Communion – Autumn of Communion 4 (carpe Sonum < Bandcamp) King Crimson – Stadthalle, Offenbach, Germany, June 7, 2000 (DGMLive) OLD SVRFERS – Ain't Scared of Shaka (Tranquility Tapes) Witchbeam…
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King Crimson – Teatro Toniolo, Mestre Venice, Italy, May 4, 1995 (DGMLive) Pierre Boulez – Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna; Notations I-IV, VII – SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg/Michael Gielen (Hänssler Classic) Bob Bellerue – Damned Piano (Anarchymoon < Bandcamp) Bill Seaman – f (noir) (Eilean; pre-order selections) Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 9 – Vienna…
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VYGR – Hypersleep (Creator-Destructor) Robert Fripp – Mud Island Amphitheater, Memphis, TN, Oct. 11, 1997 (DGMLive) Steven Wilson – Hand. Cannot. Erase. (Kscope; out March 3) Harrison Birtwistle – Violin Concerto – Christian Tetzlaff, BBC Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson (YouTube) Jean-Philippe Rameau – The Sound of Light – MusicAeterna/Theodor Currentzis (Sony Classical) Noveller – Live…
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< R.I.P. Edgar Froese and Andrew Patner > Jeff Witscher – Bifurcating a Resounding No! (Salon < Bandcamp) Taiga Remains – Glass Estuary (Monorail Tresspassing < Bandcamp) Lawrence English – Wilderness of Mirrors (Room40) Thomas Stiegler – Treibgut I/2; Gelbe Birne III-1; eins, zwei, drei; Gelbe Birne III-2; Treibgut II; Peter Ablinger – Amtssee bei…
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Phil Lesh and Friends – Beacon Theatre, New York, NY, February 10, 2006 (Archive.org) Steve Roach – Invisible (Bandcamp) Kyle Landstra – Dream Array (Twin Springs Tapes) Mayhem – Esoteric Warfare (Season of Mist) Zs – XE (Northern Spy; due Jan. 27) Steven Wilson – Hand. Cannot. Erase. (Kscope; due March 3) Punch Brothers –…
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