Steve Smith
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WQXR "Trout Week": Ebène Quartet at the Greene SpaceThe New York Times, April 7, 2011 Between musical selections midway through this show, host Bill McGlaughlin asked the members of the Ebène Quartet how many concerts they present in a typical year. Around 120 was the response. After a few more tunes – "Misirlou," "Libertango," the…
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Anne-Sophie Mutter, Roman Patkoló and members of the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, April 6, 2011 What kind of musician attracts Anne-Sophie Mutter's attention? Watch bassist Roman Patkoló playing Pablo de Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen, a familiar violin showpiece, and you'll know the answer.
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Anne-Sophie Mutter with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, April 2, 2011 In tempus praesens, the solemn, beautiful violin concerto by Sofia Gubaidulina that Anne-Sophie Mutter just performed with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New York Philharmonic, is the subject of a recent documentary film, Sophia: Biography of a Violin…
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American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, March 31, 2011
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The Belcea Quartet at Alice Tully HallThe New York Times, March 30, 2011
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The Juilliard Orchestra at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, March 29, 2011
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The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, March 25, 2011 Writing reviews is seldom easy, but this one was an exception; somehow, once the opening bit came to me, the rest flowed without much effort. I had real fun with it. And yes, the opening quotes are genuine.
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Center for Contemporary Opera The Secret Agent at the Kaye PlayhouseThe New York Times, March 22, 2011
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Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien at Weill Recital HallThe New York Times, March 22, 2011 Already deeply impressed with Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova through her remarkable series of recordings on the Hyperion label — one of which I reviewed for the Times, here — I was thrilled to finally get a chance to hear her…
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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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