Steve Smith
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Vertical Player Repertory Les Contes d'Hoffmann at the Red Hook Marine TerminalThe New York Times, September 8, 2008
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"Worldwide Demand for Mezzo-Soprano"The New York Times, September 7, 2008 Under that no-nonsense title you'll find my contribution to the Times's annual fall preview section, "The Season Ahead." Maybe it's unorthodox to sing the praises of Joyce DiDonato in advance of a season in which she's absent from the Metropolitan Opera House. But the Times…
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Seriously, it's just the holiday that makes it look as if I haven't posted anything but TONY links in a week. That said, I'm pretty proud to share this week's experiment. Anyone who reads TONY regularly can tell how much we (meaning I) appreciate certain New York City-based artists and ensembles, some of whom the…
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After a lovely and much-needed long weekend of sun, sand, ice cream and fireworks on the shore, it's time to catch up with my doings in this week's issue of Time Out New York. It's a big issue, too: the annual Fall Preview, with a few choice picks for happenings in New York between now…
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Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, August 25, 2008
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Regular readers here have no doubt noticed that while I regularly link to my pieces in The New York Times, I provide links to my writing in Time Out New York much less frequently. The reason for that is simple enough: the TONY website has gone through a great many changes during the last few…
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I've complained in the past about my inability to devote much time to blogging, and I'm in that frame of mind again today. I do, however, have a better excuse than usual: This afternoon marks my first time off after 19 consecutive days of work — a majority of those days in the 12-18 hour…
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The Bard Music Festival at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing ArtsThe New York Times, August 19, 2008
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(Posted this afternoon on the TONY Blog) That seismic ripple you just felt rumbling through New York City's classical-music community was the bombshell announcement that George Steel, daredevil impresario of the Miller Theatre at Columbia University, has accepted the position of general director at the Dallas Opera, effective as of October 1, 2008. Steel, a…
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Das Liebesverbot at Glimmerglass OperaThe New York Times, August 12, 2008
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Kiss Me, Kate, I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Giulio Cesare at Glimmerglass OperaThe New York Times, August 11, 2008
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"Intimidated by Mozart's Ghost? Not Anymore"The New York Times, August 10, 2008 An article about Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, whose second opera, Adriana Mater, has been running this summer at the Santa Fe Opera, and whose oratorio, La Passion de Simone, receives its American premiere at the Mostly Mozart Festival on Wednesday (August 13). I'm…
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Things are in flux at the day job right now, which has made finding time for blogging an even greater challenge than usual. But a chance culinary encounter I had last week demands some attention. Last Friday night as I was heading to Bargemusic for the terrific David Holzman recital I reviewed a few days…
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David Holzman at BargemusicThe New York Times, August 4, 2008
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Christiane Oelze, Ken Noda and the Daedalus Quartet at the Kaplan PenthouseThe New York Times, August 2, 2008
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The Marticians at the Juilliard SchoolThe New York Times, August 1, 2008
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(Posted this morning on the TONY Blog) Up until Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes got arrested — or actually, y’know, didn’t — for assaulting a monitor engineer last night at Webster Hall, I thought the smell permeating the space might be the corpse of late-’80s hardcore finally dissolving into a fetid gelatin. (Or maybe it…
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“Minimalist Man Tries Organizing a Concert Series”The New York Times, July 27, 2008 An article about Foster Reed (pictured left, in a photograph by Rochelle Redfield) and his invaluable new-music label, New Albion, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a 10-concert mini-festival at Bard College starting Friday. The label has played an important part…
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What a sad, noble and beautiful opera Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd is, and how sharply and vividly are its passions enacted in the Paul Curran production currently being presented by the Santa Fe Opera, which I saw this evening (Friday, July 25). The main attraction here, one could argue, is the performance by Teddy Tahu…
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José Feghali at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Performing ArtsThe New York Times, July 16, 2008
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