Steve Smith
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Ingrid Fliter at the Caramoor International Music FestivalThe New York Times, August 14, 2006
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CD review: Marc Mellits – Tight SweaterReal Quiet; Cristina Buciu, violin; Chuck Meyer, cello; Tom Kolor, percussionEndeavor Classics CD 1016The New York Times, August 13, 2006(ArkivMusic, Barnes & Noble)
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Leipzig String Quartet at the Walter Reade TheaterThe New York Times, August 8, 2006
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Sergey Khachatryan at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, August 7, 2006
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Emily Manzo at the StoneThe New York Times, August 1, 2006
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If you read my review of Ornette Coleman’s brilliant recent concert at Carnegie Hall during the JVC Festival, it’s entirely likely that you might have wanted to hear it for yourself. If that’s true, waste no time in heading over to Destination Out, a fine young MP3 blog devoted to outward-bound jazz. The tone is…
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Thomas Meglioranza at Pace UniversityThe New York Times, July 26, 2006
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Frances-Marie Uitti at Columbia UniversityThe New York Times, July 24, 2006 (No, I haven’t given up on the blog, I promise. Just need to get my feet back under me…)
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The New York Philharmonic in Central Park.The New York Times, July 20, 2006
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On Saturday, I caught the final night of "Full Force: The New Rock Complexity," a three-evening festival curated by John Zorn at Tonic. All things considered, I’m sorry to have missed the previous two evenings; friends in the audience were still buzzing about memorable sets from Jerseyband, Newspeak, Time of Orchids and Capital M. (The…
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I missed violinist Jennifer Koh’s performance with the New York Philharmonic on Wednesday night, since the orchestra’s Central Park concert was cancelled due to ferocious weather. (Koh’s debut with the orchestra came one night earlier, in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.) Fellow scribe Vivien Schweitzer, on the other hand, made the journey out to Cunningham Park in…
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They could probably be touring auditoriums and playing somewhere low in the billing on the first stage at Ozzfest by now. Instead, the members of pioneering Norwegian black-metal band Emperor took the high road. When they realized that they were pulling in at least two different directions, aesthetically speaking, after they recorded their fourth and…
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In the post below, I’ve added links to Lorraine Hunt Lieberson obituaries and tributes as I’ve come upon them…and they continue to mount, unsurprisingly. But the lovely essay by David Patrick Stearns that appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer today deserves to be singled out for special attention, I think. It’s an insightful, elegant piece, and…
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Ich bin von Gott und will wieder zu Gott!Der liebe Gott wird mir ein Lichtchen geben,Wird leuchten mir bis in das ewig selig Leben! I come from God, and to God I want to return!Dear God will give me a little lightthat will lead the way to eternal blessed life. — Das Knaben Wunderhorn After…
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In all honesty, I can’t claim to have spent all that much time at CBGB lately; the fact of the matter is that the bulk of the club’s programming in recent years hasn’t held so much interest for me. But I’d be lying if I didn’t confess that there’s something altogether genuine and appealing about…
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"The difference between doing rock shows and cabaret shows is that at rock shows, the microphone smells like old beer and spit, while at cabaret shows, it smells like Chanel No. 5, and it’s caked with red lipstick," singer Lee Ann Westover explained on Monday night at Makor, the midtown nightclub run by the 92nd…
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Until such time as she launches a blog of her own, it falls to me to point you to the good Dr. LP’s review of the Fès Festival of World Sacred Music, now online at Jazz Times. I’m betting that it’s an excellent read, full of detailed observations, exacting criticism, well-turned phrases and personable asides.…
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Let’s get one thing straight, right off the bat: Lorraine Gordon was not in Hanoi with Jane Fonda. It’s one of the more colorful of the many legends that has become attached to the 83-years-young owner of the Village Vanguard, New York City’s most hallowed surviving nightclub. "That’s another myth," Gordon told my TONY colleague…
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‘Angels in America,’ the Opera By Steve SmithMusicalAmerica.comJune 20, 2006 BOSTON — A quarter century after the first American case of AIDS was diagnosed, Angels in America — playwright Tony Kushner’s two-part, seven-hour epic about the disease, the lives it touched, and the callous disregard with which politicians marginalized its explosive early spread — long…
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I’ve lived in New York for 13 years now, and I’ve seen some mighty unexpected things in that time. But I can honestly say that among the many things I never expected to witness firsthand, a large Carnegie Hall crowd whooping it up over a violin solo by Ornette Coleman certainly ranks right up there.…
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