Steve Smith
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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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Zs – Xe (Northern Spy; due Jan. 27) The Residents – The Sycamore Street Studio: 1974-77 Embracing Obscurity (Radio Thoreau Jr.) The Residents – The Grove Street Studio: 1978-80 Embracing Visibility (Radio Thoreau Jr.) The Residents – Performance Art: 1982-1990 Taking It on the Road (Radio Thoreau Jr.) The Residents – Interactive Media: 1991-97 Game…
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Demdike Stare – At Rest (DDS) Kyle Landstra – Dream Array (Twin Springs Tapes) Anne Guthrie – Codiaeum variegatum (Students of Decay) King Crimson – Elzer Hof, Mainz, Germany, March 30, 1974 (Starless, CD 15) (DGM) Richard Wagner – Die Walküre – Astrid Varnay, Birgit Nilsson, Ramon Vinay, Hans Hotter, Josef Greindl, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra/Hans…
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Grant Evans – Respite (Vaald) King Crimson – Stadthalle, Heidelberg, Germany, March 29, 1974 (Starless, CD 14) (DGM) Asher Tuil – Landscapes Elsewhere (CONV < Bandcamp) Asher Tuil – Interference (Semata Productions < Bandcamp) Asher Tuil – Twenty-Four Views (Bandcamp) Asher Tuil – Miniatures (Sourdine < Bandcamp) Asher Tuil – Eventides (Bandcamp) Peter Hammill – …all…
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Isabel Mundry and Raphaël Cendo ECCE Ensemble at Goethe-Institut Boston, December 6, 2014Boston GlobeDecember 8, 2014 ECCE Ensemble's next public concert program will be a portrait of Mark Andre, a French composer based in Germany and a student of Gérard Grisey and Helmut Lachenmann, among others (and not to be mistaken for Marc-André Dalbavie). Bostonians…
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Hailu Mergia and the Walias – Tche Belew (Awesome Tapes from Africa) King Crimson – Palais Des Sports, Besancon, France, March 25, 1974 (Starless, CD 11) (DGM) Jason Lescalleet – This Is What I Do – Volume Three (Glistening Examples) Jeffrey Zeigler – Something of Life (Innova/VisionIntoArt) Anna Clyne – The Violin – Cornelius Dufallo,…
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Asher Tuil – two compositions (summer 2014) (Bandcamp) Asher Tuil – selections from an unlimited series (Bandcamp) Asher Tuil – nocturne (Bandcamp) Little Richard – Here's Little Richard (Specialty) King Crimson – O.R.T.F. TV, Paris, France, March 22, 1974 (Starless, CD 9) (DGM) Eva-Maria Houben – 6 sonatas for piano – Eva-Maria Houben (diafani) Mortuus…
