Steve Smith
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Allison Cook and William Ferguson in Powder Her Face, by Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Powder Her Face at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, February 15, 2013The New York Times, Feb. 18, 2013 New York City Opera opened its latest season with a brash, intelligent and sexy staging of English composer Thomas Adès's notorious debut…
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Brentano String Quartet, by Karsten Moran/The New York Times Brentano String Quartet at Zankel Hall, February 12, 2013The New York Times, Feb. 15, 2013 The world premiere of Steven Mackey's thoughtful, engaging One Red Rose, a fascinating reflection on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, shared a program with cheery Haydn and grandiloquently…
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Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphonies Nos. 5 and 7 – Berlin State Opera Orchestra/Richard Strauss (Naxos Historical) Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphonies Nos. 3 and 8 – Berlin Philarmonic/Hans Pfitzner (Naxos Historical) Robert Schumann – Frauenliebe und -Leben; Dichterliebe – Lotte Lehmann, Bruno Walter; Franz Schubert – Winterreise (selections) – Lotte Lehmann, Paul Ulanowsky (Naxos…
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<a href="http://recordings.irritablehedgehog.com/album/dennis-johnson-november-2" _mce_href="http://recordings.irritablehedgehog.com/album/dennis-johnson-november-2">Dennis Johnson: November by R. Andrew Lee</a> Pianist R. Andrew Lee, whose previous recordings for the Irritable Hedgehog label have featured illuminating performances of works by Tom Johnson, Ann Southam, William Duckworth and Jürg Frey, has just released a new album that brings to light a long-lost milestone of early minimalism: November,…
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Trombonists of the Juilliard Orchestra, by Michael Nagle/The New York Times Juilliard Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, February 9, 2013The New York Times, Feb. 11, 2013 Not many people know it, but we live in a golden age for contemporary concert-band music, with both well-established composers and inventive up-and-comers creating new pieces for (mostly) collegiate wind…
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Soloists and the Orchestra for the Next Century, by Tina Fineberg/The New York Times Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall, February 6, 2013The New York Times, Feb. 11, 2013 Given that Penelope, a large-scale song cycle composed by Sarah Kirkland Snider and sung by Shara Worden and recorded for the New Amsterdam record label,…
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Lauren Worsham, by Kristin Hoebermann Interview with Lauren Worsham [link missing]Time Out New York, Feb. 21–27, 2013 An excruciatingly short snippet from a lengthy, wide-ranging and brilliantly fun conversation with Lauren Worsham (full name: Lauren Worsham Jarrow), who plays Flora in New York City Opera's stylishly spooky production of Benjamin Britten's opera The Turn of…
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Kenneth Hesketh – Dei Destini Incrociati; Aphorisms; Fra Duri Scogli; Three Pieces in the Shape of a Shoe; Theatre of Attractions – Psappha/Nicholas Kok (Psappha) Thomas Adès – Powder Her Face – Jill Gomez, Valdine Anderson, Niall Morris, Roger Bryson, Almeida Ensemble/Thomas Adès (EMI Classics) Jonas Kaufmann – Wagner – Orchester der Deutsche Oper Berlin/Donald…
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Choi Joonyong (Photograph courtesy Issue Project Room Preview: Choi Joonyong and Hong Chulki at 155 FreemanTime Out New York, Feb. 7–13, 2013 It’s not as if music didn’t exist in South Korea before 2012. Prefab acts from Seoul had been conquering the world, one market at a time, for years; Super Junior, 2NE1 and Girls’…
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International Contemporary Ensemble, by Karsten Moran/The New York Times A Contemporary Evening for Ralph at Merkin Concert Hall, February 4, 2013The New York Times, Feb. 6, 2013 This one's short on anaylsis and long on scene-setting, which seemed appropriate for an event that was more a memorial and celebration than a conventional concert. While I…
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Shayna Dunkelman, Nuiko Wadden and Angélica Negrón, by Tina Fineberg/The New York Times Music of Now Marathon at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia, February 2, 2013The New York Times, Feb. 6, 2013 I almost never take issue with the way that my reviews are edited at The New York Times – after all, this is work…
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Isis – Live IV (self-released) Igor Stravinsky – Violin Concerto; Circus Polka; Arthur Honegger – Pacific 231; Rugby; Frank Martin – Violin Concerto – Baiba Skride, BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Thierry Fischer (Orfeo) Hector Parra – Early Life; Stress Tensor – ensemble recherche; Caressant l'Horizon – Ensemble Intercontemporain/Emilio Pomárico (Col Legno) Luke Bedford – Wonderful…
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Blair McMillen and Robert Mack, by Hiroyuki Ito/The New York Times Da Capo Chamber Players at Merkin Concert Hall, January 29, 2013The New York Times, Feb. 4, 2013 Do try to hear Wendell Logan's Runagate, Runagate some time. You'll be glad you did.
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Kirill Gerstein and Steven Isserlis, by Ian Douglas/The New York Times Steven Isserlis and Kirill Gerstein at the 92nd Street Y, January 27, 2013The New York Times, Jan. 29, 2013 That the brilliant cellist Steven Isserlis performs regularly at the 92nd Street Y is one of the venue's crowning glories, no matter what repertoire he…
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Satanic Abandoned Rock & Roll Society – Bloody Imagination (Mikroton) throuRoof – Emerald Tablet of Hermes (Housecraft) Scott Cloud – Absolute Down (Cloud Valley) Cyquoia – Within Colored Reach (Cloud Valley) Perspectives / Josh Mason – split CS (Permanent Nostalgia) Andrew Chadwick – Kerning, Vol. 2 (Permanent Nostalgia) Cool Person – Cool Person (Permanent Nostalgia)…
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Dorothea Röschmann, by Hiroyuki Ito/The New York Times Dorothea Röschmann and Malcolm Martineau at Zankel Hall, January 23, 2013The New York Times, Jan. 25, 2013 As I confessed among social-media circles already, of all the things I'm called upon to cover, lieder recitals are probably what I feel least comfortable writing about. Not that there…
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Laurelyn Watson Chase, Stephen Quint and the NYGASP chorus, by Richard Termine/The New York Times The Yeomen of the Guard at City Center, January 18, 2013The New York Times, Jan. 22, 2013 I've written several times before about my abiding love for the Gilbert & Sullivan canon, and for the work done on its behalf…
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Amanda Keil, by Ruby Washington/The New York Times Musica Nuova at Le Poisson Rouge, January 14, 2013The New York Times, Jan. 18, 2013 Congratulations to Amanda Keil and her early-music ensemble, Musica Nuova, and to director Beth Greenberg for demonstrating in "The Arianna Project" that a mix of Ariadne-inspired monodramas by Monteverdi, Haydn and Alessandro…
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Zac Ballard and Christopher Burchett in Soldier Songs, by Ruby Washington/The New York Times Soldier Songs at Pace University, January 11, 2013The New York Times, Jan. 15, 2013 So glad to have seen David T. Little's first musical-theater piece, especially having been so deeply impressed and moved by his subsequent opera, Dog Days (reviewed here…
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