Steve Smith
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Back in March, I reviewed a concert celebating composer David Del Tredici’s 70th birthday, presented at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. At the end of the post, I listed every subsequent NYC-area performance of Del Tredici’s music that I could find through an evening of earnest Googling. This week, both Del Tredici and composer-conductor Joshua…
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NewMusicMannes at Mannes College the New School for MusicThe New York Times, May 2, 2007
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That’s why I have mixed feelings about Mr. Coleman’s Pulitzer. Should the jury have stretched the rules well past the breaking point in order to give it to him? I wish I could say yes. He deserves it, and so does jazz. Yet I can’t help but recall the footrace in "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland"…
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Opus 21 at the Leonard Nimoy ThaliaThe New York Times, May 1, 2007
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The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully HallThe New York Times, April 30, 2007
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CD review: Andrew Russo – "Dirty Little Secret"Andrew Russo, pianistEndeavor Classics END 1019; CDThe New York Times, April 29, 2007(ArkivMusic, Barnes & Noble) The performance by Russo and his trio Real Quiet on Monday, April 30 that’s mentioned in the second paragraph of this review is the latest installment of Ronen Givony’s invaluable Wordless Music…
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The Norwegian black-metal band Dimmu Borgir released its first new studio album in four years, In Sorte Diaboli, on Tuesday, but you might not have guessed as much from the first hour of the set the band played at the Nokia Theatre Times Square on Thursday night. The new disc, a very strong one, is…
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Midori and Robert McDonald at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, April 26, 2007 ===== I seldom add remarks and enable comments when I post my Times reviews, but just this once I’ll make an exception. Before a last-minute swerve found me at Avery Fisher Hall for the Midori recital — which I didn’t regret…
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Back in 1976, violinist Olga Bloom had the offbeat notion of mooring an inactive coffee barge at Fulton Ferry Landing, near the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, and converting it into a floating chamber-music space. (The story can be read here.) Thirty-plus years later, Bargemusic remains one of New York’s busiest, liveliest concert halls: for…
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Edgar Meyer and Emanuel Ax at Zankel HallThe New York Times, April 24, 2007
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Twenty years after his last performances in New York, former Hüsker Dü bassist-turned-restauranteur Greg Norton hit town this weekend for a pair of performances with his new combo, The Gang Font feat. Interloper. I caught the second, presented on Sunday night at the Knitting Factory’s Tap Bar. It’s an impressive band, featuring guitarist Erik Fratzke…
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On Saturday morning, I headed to Philadelphia to do some work for an article I’ll soon be writing. While there, I took the opportunity to belatedly hear the Philadelphia Orchestra play in Verizon Hall for the first time. (Truth be told, the two incidents are not unrelated.) The orchestra’s short but satisfying concert opened with…
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The video quality here is kind of hideous, and I don’t know what John Wetton was thinking with that facial foliage. But here, in all its glory, is this blog’s theme song (and a bonus track besides).
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The great jazz pianist, composer and bandleader Andrew Hill succumbed to cancer this morning, according to a press announcement just circulated by publicist Jim Eigo: I’ve been asked by composer and pianist Andrew Hill’s family to announce to the press that he died at 4 a.m. today, April 20, 2007, several years after being diagnosed…
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Earle Brown Retrospective at the Chelsea Art MuseumThe New York Times, April 19, 2007
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Charles Wuorinen’s Percussion Symphony at Alice Tully HallThe New York Times, April 18, 2007
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La Traviata at New York City OperaThe New York Times, April 13, 2007
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On Wednesday afternoon, I interviewed guitarist Kevin Gallagher for an upcoming TONY article about an exciting three-concert series devoted to the music of Jacob ter Veldhuis (a.k.a. Jacob TV), which will be presented at the Whitney Museum on May 2, 3 and 4. After we’d wrapped up that business, we talked a bit longer about…
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Sarah Chang and Ashley Wass at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, April 12, 2007
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Fresh off his latest celebratory run at Iridium last week, Anthony Braxton was spotted by Hank Shteamer last night at a Bowery Ballroom show by Battles, in which Braxton’s son Tyondai plays with former Helmet drummer John Stanier among others. According to Hank’s brief eyewitness account on the TONY Blog, the elder Braxton appeared to…
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