Steve Smith
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"Avant-Garde Dancing Feet, Tickling Composers' Minds"The New York Times, March 18, 2011 An article about the making of Music for Merce, a newish 10-CD box set issued by the invaluable New World record label. The box is devoted to a well-chosen cross-section of the myriad musical scores that came into being through the auspices of…
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Emerson String Quartet with James Galway at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, March 14, 2011
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Les Arts Florissants Anacréon and Pygmalion at Alice Tully HallThe New York Times, March 14, 2011
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"Joe Morello, Drummer with Dave Brubeck Quartet, Dies at 82"The New York Times, March 13, 2011 My first published Times obituary: not a task one wants to take up, but an assignment I'm glad to have landed. Partly it's because both as a percussionist in training and as a budding jazz fan I grew up…
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Alarm Will Sound: 1969 at Zankel HallThe New York Times, March 12, 2011
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Konrad Kaczmarek, Judd Greenstein, Chris Thompson and Olga Bell; photograph by David Andrako. The Yehudim and Olga Bell at Merkin Concert HallThe New York Times, March 5, 2011 But if the Yehudim were dressed in matching white with gold accents as you describe, I hear you ask, why is Olga Bell dressed in black in…
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All over my apartment, in boxes and in piles, are loose clippings and magazines with articles I've written that, for one reason or another, don't exist on the web. For some time now I've been toying with the idea of posting at least some of those pieces here, partly because it's a way of archiving…
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Portrait of the author hard at work during Inuksuit. Photograph by Bonnie Wright. Tomorrow (March 1) from 3 to 5pm, I'll slip off the manacles binding me to my desk at the Time Out New York compound and head across town to St. Peter's Church (619 Lexington Ave. at 54th St.), where I'll be participating…
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Takács Quartet at the 92nd Street YThe New York Times, February 28, 2011 Even if you're not all that interested in reading about one of the world's finest string quartets burning down the house with three works by Schubert, click through long enough to have a look at Times photographer Brian Harkin's amazing shot of…
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Gian Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street at Dicapo Opera TheatreThe New York Times, February 26, 2011 Small caveats aside, this really is one of the best productions I've seen at the Dicapo Opera, a company that seems to be finding an identity of its own in part by preserving and celebrating mainstream American…
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Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, February 24, 2011 Images of the street protest mentioned in my review can be seen at Adalah-NY. I've posted my sole iPhone snap here, but I wish I'd gotten close enough to see the clever violin-shaped signs visible in the linked slideshow. Playlist: ProjeKct Three –…
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Tune-In Music Festival: Inuksuit at the Park Avenue ArmoryThe New York Times, February 22, 2011 Some scenes from the performance: The drill hall, viewed from the east end. John Luther Adams (left), rapt. David T. Little at work. Nicholas Photinos of eighth blackbird in a stairwell. Looking down from behind Steven Schick, west-end gallery.
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The Juilliard Orchestra with John Adams at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, February 21, 2011 The night after this concert, I finally got to see the Metropolitan Opera's new production of John Adams's opera Nixon in China, presented in the original 1987 staging by Peter Sellars–more or less. Many reviews appeared after the premiere earlier…
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"At Tully Hall, the Norm Is a Festival"The New York Times, February 20, 2011 A very short preview of Lincoln Center's Tully Scope Festival, which celebrates the diverse range of things that Alice Tully Hall already does well, while also suggesting some of the ways in which Lincoln Center is trying to make better use…
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CD REVIEW: Ben Johnston: String Quartets 1, 5, 10Kepler QuartetNew World Records 80693-2; CD.The New York Times, February 20, 2011 Amazon / Ariama / ArkivMusic / Forced Exposure / H&B Recordings Direct A review of the second volume in an invaluable series devoted to the complete string quartets of Ben Johnston, an amazing, undersung…
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The New York Philharmonic with Branford Marsalis at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, February 19, 2011 I rarely receive feedback on my reviews from strangers, directly, but every time I do, I learn something valuable. After this review appeared in print this morning, I got an e-mail from someone who attended the matinee performance…
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