Steve Smith
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Alexandre Tharaud, by Ruby Washington/The New York Times Alexandre Tharaud at Weill Recital Hall, October 24, 2012The New York Times, Oct. 26, 2012 Despite this review bearing (as I write this on Saturday afternoon) the byline of my boss, this is mine. As one friend noted on Facebook, "yeah, Jim O would never write 'clubbing'."…
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Black Eagle Child / Sean McCann – Cambrian Members (self-released) Black Eagle Child / The Pistil Cosmos – The Dew on Equinox (self-released) Work/Death – Excuse Me But I Think You Dropped Something (Three Songs of Lenin) Cube – Bride of Walk Man (self-released) Peat Ramuur / Perspectives – split CS (Rotifer) Coventry Music –…
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William Christie, by Hiroyuki Ito/The New York Times Les Arts Florissants at Alice Tully Hall, October 19, 2012The New York Times, Oct. 22, 2012 Like the lede says, there are few things in life or art more reliable than the excellence of a concert by the eminent conductor William Christie and Les Arts Florissants. This…
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Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, by Hiroyuki Ito/The New York Times Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain at Carnegie Hall, October 17, 2012The New York Times, Oct. 22, 2012 My only Times review so far to include Eddie Vedder and Zooey Deschanel in the lede graf. (Felt good to sneak in a Buke and Gase mention,…
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Garrison Keillor with the New York Philharmonic, by Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Garrison Keillor with the New York Philharmonic, October 16, 2012The New York Times, Oct. 18, 2012 Pretty much explains itself, except to say that I was surprised, in my first time seeing Mr. Keillor perform live, by just how little eye…
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Digital Natives – Loosen Your Talk Tapes (Twin Palm Cinematics) Heat Sureens – The Beast at Peace (Housecraft) Jeffry Astin – Weird Wide World of Water Windows (Housecraft) Bottomfeeder / Xiphiidae – split CS (Housecraft) Mannateas – Everglade (Housecraft) Digital Natives – Side Wise Open (Bandcamp) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concertos Nos. 20 and…
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AMM – The Nameless Uncarved Block (Matchless) AMM – Newfoundland (Matchless) Difference Clouds – Shiro (Tranquility Tapes) Andreas Brandal – Turning Point (Tranquility Tapes) Misner Space – Golorium (Tranquility Tapes) Grant Evans – Solos for Muted Transparent (Tranquility Tapes) :zoviet*france: – Misfits, Loony Tunes and Squalid Criminals (Charrm) :zoviet*france: – Gesture Signal Threat (Charrm) :zoviet*france:…
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Tidal / Venn Rain – Missing Time (Sunk Series) Clime – Rift-Valley Landing (Sunk Series) Jussi Björling – Opera Arias (EMI Classics, via MOG) Felix Mendelssohn – Violin Concertos; The Hebrides – Alina Ibragimova, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Vladimir Jurowski (Hyperion) Grant Evans – 9.28.12 (Bandcamp) Skeletons Big Band – The Bus (Shinkoyo) Giuseppe…
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Michael Kelly, by Steven Schreiber/The New York Times Gotham Chamber Opera at Le Poisson Rouge, October 1, 2012The New York Times, Oct. 5, 2012 Baroque opera and dance, for the second time in a week. Someone wants me to earn my pay. Also, not that anyone asked, but here's an instance in which I'm taking…
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Lauren Worsham in 'Dog Days,' by Ruby Washington/The New York Times Dog Days at Montclair State University, September 29, 2012The New York Times, Oct. 4, 2012 This new opera, by composer David T. Little and librettist Royce Vavrek, is without question among the most important and memorable pieces I've heard this year. That I hope…
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Morton Feldman: 'Crippled Symmetry'The Feldman Soloists.Frozen Reeds fr 1/2; two CDsThe New York Times, Sept. 30, 2012 When I bought my copy of this superb new recording just under two months ago, mail order direct from the label was among your few options for acquiring it. It's still a good one, but U.S. record collectors…
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Mikhail Rudy, by Ian Douglas/The New York Times Mikhail Rudy at the Guggenheim Museum, September 27, 2012The New York Times, Sept. 29, 2012 Given a bit more space and time to describe this unique intersection of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition with a video presentation based on a staging of the work created by…
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TILT Brass with Nate Wooley at University Settlement, September 21, 2012The New York Times, Sept. 26, 2012 Scroll down past reviews of Kimiko Ishizaka and the Talea Ensemble for a succinct snapshot of a rich collaboration between New York agit-prop new-music ensemble TILT Brass and trumpeter Nate Wooley, who presented the fourth and latest installment…
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Casper Clausen with the Wordless Music Orchestra, by Joshua Bright/The New York Times Efterklang with the Wordless Music Orchestra at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 22, 2012The New York Times, Sept. 24, 2012 Belatedly getting around to posting my bit on the collaboration between Danish art-pop trio Efterklang and the Wordless Music Orchestra, which…
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Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Conscious Currents (Bandcamp) Jason Lescalleet – Songs About Nothing (Erstwhile) Andrea Neumann/Bonnie Jones – green just as I could see (Erstwhile) Christian Wolff/Keith Rowe – untitled (ErstLive 010) (Erstwhile) Taku Unami/Takahiro Kawaguchi – Teatro Assente (Erstwhile) Jérôme Noetinger/Will Guthrie – Face Off (Erstwhile) So Percussion with Grey Mcmurray –…
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International Contemporary Ensemble, by Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times International Contemporary Ensemble at Miller Theatre, September 20, 2012The New York Times, Sept. 22, 2012 “Credit goes to the International Contemporary Ensemble…for finding a new and illuminating context in which to position Cage, by juxtaposing his music with a benchmark serialist composition by Pierre Boulez”…
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Marillion – Sounds That Can't Be Made (E.A.R. Music) Toshimaru Nakamura/English – One Day (Erstwhile) William Duckworth – The Time Curve Preludes – R. Andrew Lee (Irritable Hedgehog, via Bandcamp) Toshimaru Nakamura/Ami Yoshida – Soba to Bara (Erstwhile) Toshimaru Nakamura – Egrets (Samadhi Sound) Annie Gosfield – Almost Truths and Open Deceptions (Tzadik) Thelonious Monk…
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Ensemble Mise-en, by Ruby Washington/The New York Times Moving Sounds at the Czech Center, September 14, 2012The New York Times, Sept. 17, 2012 I've reviewed Moving Sounds performances twice before in The New York Times, once last year and once the year before. Allan Kozinn did the honors the first year, and also reviewed a…
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Jonah and Nadia Sirota, by Hiroyuki Ito/The New York Times “The Sirotas Play Sirota” at the Manhattan School of Music, September 13, 2012The New York Times, Sept. 17, 2012
Night After Night 