Steve Smith
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Annina Claire Pellegrinelli-Smith made her world-debut appearance on Wednesday, February 5, 2014, at 7:49pm. Weighing in at 9lb, 2oz, and measuring 22 inches, she immediately displayed an intense curiosity, and a healthy appetite for life and much else. Annina started an unlimited engagement in Jackson Heights on Saturday afternoon, where she's enjoying the support of…
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The New York Times building, by Richard Drew/AP I'd intended to make the previous "Days between" post the last…until such time as I once again fall so badly behind that I can't locate the 10 to 15 minutes it takes to flog a bit of my writing for The New York Times here on my…
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The third and, for now, last next to last in a brief series, this post collects all of my writing for The New York Times between my report on the American Symphony Orchestra concert of November 17 and the collective article "Critics Weigh In on Standout Operas of Recent Decades," both of which I posted…
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Since last Sunday (Jan. 26) I've been listening to concert recordings by my favorite rock band, and absolutely nothing else. Go ahead and look at the previous post. It's all there. I started working at Time Out New York 12.5 years ago, as a part-time editor handling classical music exclusively. Two years later I became…
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Pausal – Sky Margin (Own Records > Bandcamp) G Sweems – Treasure Island (Noumenal Loom) György Kurtág – Grabstein für Stefan; Stele; Karlheinz Stockhausen – Gruppen – Jürgen Ruck, Berlin Philharmonic/Claudio Abbado, Friedrich Goldmann, Marcus Creed (Deutsche Grammophon) Luigi Nono – Como una ola de fuerza y luz – Slavka Taskova, Maurizio Pollini, Bavarian Radio…
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Celer – Voyeur (Humming Conch) Otomo Yoshihide/Sachiko M/Evan Parker/John Edwards/Tony Marsh/John Butcher – Quintet/Sextet (OTOroku) Whitney George – Blue Nine (Blue Tapes) Various artists – v-p v-f is v-n, cs02 (winds measure recordings) Tuluum Shimmering – Festival at the Shallow River (Noumenal Loom) International Parallives Institute – Memoirs of Anomie Gray (Noumenal Loom) Billy Gomberg…
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Hannah Hoch – Floeberg (Bandcamp) Rapoon – Seeds in the Tide, Volume 2 (Zoharum > Bandcamp) The Fierce and the Dead – Spooky Action (Bad Elephant > Bandcamp) Clime – Paleochannels (S.I.N.K. CDs > Bandcamp) King Crimson – The Town Hall, New York, NY, June 4, 1995 (DGMLive) The Impressions – Complete A- and B-Sides…
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New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, by Richard Termine/The New York Times New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players: Patience at Symphony Space, January 3, 2014The New York Times, Jan. 6, 2014 Don't know that I would call Patience my favorite Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, as did a friend of mine on Facebook – I love…
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Yefim Bronfman with the New York Philharmonic, by Hiroyuki Ito/The New York Times New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, January 2, 2014The New York Times, Jan. 4, 2014 My first concert review of 2014: a terrific program featuring the New York Philharmonic with its current artist in residence, pianist Yefim Bronfman, in a concerto…
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"Tomorrow's Valhalla: Critics Weigh in on Standout Operas of Recent Decades"The New York Times, January 5, 2014 As longtime perusers of this blog already know, I always enjoy features in which all the classical-music reviewers for The New York Times are asked to mix it up on a single topic. I missed posting the recent…
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Michael Pisaro – Unter Eichen – Barry Chabala (Roeba) Matt Davis, Phil Durrant, Mark Wastell – untitled (Confront Recordings) Anne Guthrie & Barry Chabala – Preston Hollow (Roeba) The Sealed Knot Live at Café Oto (Confront Recordings) Anne Guthrie – Perhaps a Favorable Organic Moment (Copy for Your Records) Rapoon – Vernal Crossing Revisited (Zoharum)…
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Kate Soper and Gelsey Bell, by Kobi Davis Welcome to 2014—and what a crazy weekend for contemporary American opera in NYC January 11-12 is turning out to be. Not only will the second PROTOTYPE Festival be in full swing (about which more to come), but Morningside Opera will present Here Be Sirens, a new chamber…
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<a href="http://noveller.bandcamp.com/album/artifact" data-mce-href="http://noveller.bandcamp.com/album/artifact">ARTIFACT by Noveller</a> "And you can tell everybody that this is your song…" Just out from Noveller – a.k.a. guitarist/looper/soundscaper Sarah Lipstate – is ARTIFACT, a new compilation of 12 short solo tracks, each created for an individual who purchased a copy of the limited-edition DVD box set of the same title that…
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Michael Pisaro – asleep, forest, melody, path – ensemble/Greg Stuart (SoundCloud) Various artists – *AND (Parlour Tapes+) Gustav Mahler – Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; Kindertotenlieder; Rückert-Lieder – Christian Gerhaher, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal/Kent Nagano (Sony Classical) Antonio Vivaldi - Concertos for Two Violins and Strings I – Dmitry Sinkovsky, Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo d’Oro (Naïve) Trabajo…
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Morgan Krauss and Rebekah Heller Rebekah Heller and Ryan Muncy at Spectrum, December 14, 2013Night After Night exclusive I first encountered the music of Morgan Krauss almost exactly one year ago in Chicago, during the valiant "(Re)New Amsterdam" benefit concert organized by Marcos Balter and Doyle Armbrust at the Empty Bottle. The day was long…
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Giuseppe Verdi – Falstaff – Regina Resnik, Cloe Elmo, Licia Albanese, Martha Lipton, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Leonard Warren, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus/Fritz Reiner (Sony Classical) Clime – Paleochannels (S.I.N.K. CDs) Nectar of the Moon – Synthetic Perceptions/Neural Oscillations (S.I.N.K. CDs) Nathan McLaughlin – Karen Studies (Scissor Tail) Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Ballade…
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American Symphony Orchestra, by Hiroyuki Ito American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, November 17, 2013The New York Times, Nov. 19, 2013 The other of my two reviews that ran on November 19. Another satisfying outing with the A.S.O., and maybe the first review in which I came right out and said that anyone still getting…
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John Orfe of Alarm Will Sound, by Hiroyuki Ito Alarm Will Sound at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 16, 2013The New York Times, Nov. 19, 2013 Finally getting around to posting two reviews that ran in the Times last Tuesday. Both concerts were events I specifically requested, and neither disappointed. This Alarm Will Sound…
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I've written about the music-sales website/service Bandcamp so often, here and on social-media channels, that I run the risk of sounding like a shill, I know. But I can't help it: I just love the browsing, streaming, shopping and sharing capabilities it delivers. Early on, my admiration was slightly mitigated by the idea that even…
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