Steve Smith
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(Posted this afternoon on the TONY Blog) Alan Gilbert under the spotlight "Evolution, not revolution" was the theme of the morning when the New York Philharmonic gathered the local press corps, artists, assorted guests and dignitaries on the stage at Avery Fisher Hall for a press conference announcing details of its 2009–10 season. Speculation had…
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Ensemble ACJW at Paul Hall, the Juilliard SchoolThe New York Times, January 12, 2009 Asher Fisch conducts Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, and Lucy Shelton is featured in Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire.
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The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, January 10, 2009 The U.S. premiere of Tristan Murail's Gondwana, along with performances of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 11, Debussy's La Mer and Messiaen's Oiseaux exotiques. Ludovic Morlot conducts; Olli Mustonen is the soloist.
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Time, at last, to share my picks for the year. Honestly, what follows has been up on the Time Out New York website for more than a week now (here and here). But in forcing myself to actually observe a rare week off from work (Dec. 24 to Jan 1.), I included blogging in that…
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The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan OperaThe New York Times, December 24, 2008 Happy holidays, everyone. Back in a few days with this year's top picks.
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MMArtists in Concert at the Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe New York Times, December 22, 2008
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I come not to praise Gilbert Kaplan, nor to bury him. Instead, what follows is my attempt to make peace with an unusual situation in which I found myself embroiled during the past week — in large part within the confines of my own skull. Not quite two weeks ago, I had the unique experience…
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"Independent Classical Labels Embrace a D.I.Y. Ethos"The New York Times, December 21, 2008 From tomorrow's Arts & Leisure round-up of the year in culture, here's my essay on the continued proliferation of significant record labels run by artists, ensembles and composers. That such labels exist is nothing new, a point I'm sure is clear to…
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New York Philharmonic Messiah at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, December 19, 2008
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When the Features team at Time Out New York asked me and my fellow music staffers to find a handful of crafty local musicians who would be willing to write new holiday songs for the magazine — on a very short deadline, and for the sheer glory of it — I thought we'd come up…
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Isaac Mizrahi does Peter and the Wolf at the Guggenheim MuseumThe New York Times, December 17, 2008
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Making Music: Elliott Carter at Zankel Hall and New York Philharmonic "Day of Carter" at the Kaplan PenthouseThe New York Times, December 16, 2008
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Peter Serkin and the Brentano String Quartet at the 92nd Street YThe New York Times, December 15, 2008
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Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan at Zankel HallThe New York Times, December 11, 2008
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Gilbert Kaplan conducts the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, December 10, 2008 Remember this one, then go here, here and especially here. We'll revisit this topic shortly.
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American Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, December 9, 2008
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Kronos Quartet at Zankel HallThe New York Times, December 8, 2008 Begging everyone's indulgence, but it's been another one of those weeks in which I never had a spare moment to get my Times reviews posted here. (The reason why I feel compelled to catch up right now — literally in the middle of the…
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Piotr Anderszewski at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, December 5, 2008 It is entirely possible, in retrospect, that I might actually have understated the terrifying isolation and despair Anderszewski brought out in the final movement of Beethoven's Op. 130 110. As I told one of my editors on the phone yesterday, I was so shaken…
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Lost Dog New Music Ensemble plays Sequenza 21 at Waltz-AstoriaThe New York Times, December 3, 2008
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Electrum Duo at BargemusicThe New York Times, December 1, 2008
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