Steve Smith
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ComposersCollaborative inc "Serial Underground" at Cornelia Street CaféThe New York Times, June 13, 2007
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The St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble "Notable Women" Festival at the Chelsea Art Museum and Ensemble ACJW at Zankel HallThe New York Times, June 12, 2007
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Further to my three prior posts that made reference to the still-unfolding story of Pierre Ruhe’s employment status at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, that paper’s managing editor Hank Klibanoff posted the following note in the comments field of my June 6 post. I believe it deserves greater visibility than that, and reprint it here verbatim (apart…
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Geoff Edgers of the Boston Globe, on his blog Exhibitionist, adds another perspective to the ongoing discussion of Atlanta Journal-Constitution classical critic Pierre Ruhe’s employment status: that of Hank Klibanoff, AJC managing editor for enterprise, who says that Ruhe’s job was never in jeopardy in the first place. Klibanoff has some pointed words for bloggers…
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Album review: Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles, Diamonds in the DarkSugar Hill Records, 2007Time Out New York, June 7–13, 2007Five stars (out of five) Had Boston-based singer Sarah Borges come along in the mid-1960s, she surely would have been roped into the Capitol stable alongside like-minded mavericks such as Wanda Jackson, Merle Haggard and…
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Henry Fogel has exciting news: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has apparently chosen to retain the services of classical music critic Pierre Ruhe. I heard a rumor to this effect earlier today, but my efforts to nail down the facts came to nothing. (Nothing I want to print, anyway.) Ruhe’s review of Pascal Dusapin’s Faustus, The Last…
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I somehow managed to stay off the spammers’ radar for more than a year and a half, but this morning I noticed no fewer than three fake comments attached to posts here. (The note from the Spiegelworld intern I decided to leave, figuring it for a borderline case.) Since I think it’s safe to assume…
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Bang on a Can Marathon at the World Financial CenterThe New York Times, June 5, 2007 More: Darcy James Argue (who brilliantly liveblogged the entire 27 hours and 10 minutes) Jason Bergman (nice photos at Pitchfork, mostly the alt-rock acts) Bruce Hodges Pete Matthews (excellent photos… there’s more commentary in his prior posts) Anastasia Tsioulcas…
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(Posted today on the TONY Blog) The downtown New York jazz scene lost one of its busiest, most creative souls last weekend when percussionist Take Toriyama passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. We received the sad news late this afternoon in an e-mail from Michaël Attias, curator of the excellent weekly series "Night of the Ravished…
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Alex Ross on a dangerous situation for arts criticism currently brewing in Atlanta. Alex neatly summarizes a reported piece by Steve Dollar that ran this morning on the subscriber-only news page at MusicalAmerica.com. And Mark Stryker boils the entire controversy down to a single, pointed question. Darcy James Argue on the concert by Sam Rivers,…
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Konstantin Lifschitz at the Town HallThe New York Times, May 29, 2007
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The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) at P.S. 122The New York Times, May 24, 2007
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Louis Karchin’s Romulus at the Guggenheim Museum and Nemanja Radulovic and Susan Manoff at Weill Recital HallThe New York Times, May 22, 2007
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(Posted today on the TONY Blog) In one of the mostly starkly dramatic moments of "I have some light: Songs of Spirit," the song recital presented by opera soprano Anne-Carolyn Bird and pianist Jocelyn Dueck on Thursday night (May 17) at Gallerie Icosahedron in Tribeca, no music was played at all. The program put it…
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(Posted today on the TONY Blog) What is it that makes Suzanne Vega so sexy? It’s not in what she tells us, but what she refuses to reveal. The stories she’s told over the past 20-plus years have been crammed with detail. But in the best of them, she somehow suggests a worldliness that she…
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Sorry about the continued silence…my home Internet connection has mysteriously taken a powder. Hopefully things will be up and running again soon.
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Charles Rosen at the 92nd Street YThe New York Times, May 15, 2007
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Musicians from Marlboro at the Metropolitan Museum of ArtandBrooklyn Philharmonic with the Ridge Theater at BAMThe New York Times, May 14, 2007
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This would be a pretty boring blog if all I did was link to articles I’ve written elsewhere. But given my drive to and from Richmond over the weekend, as well as work-related pressures, I’ve only been out to see one performance during the last week: the Met’s rather fabulous Orfeo ed Euridice. At the…
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"A Violinist to Listen to, Maybe After a Download"The New York Times, May 5, 2007 An article about Dutch violinist Janine Jansen, who makes her debut on the big stage at Carnegie Hall Saturday night (May 5) with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She’ll be playing the Mendelssohn concerto; Orpheus boldly opens with two pieces by…
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