Live reviews
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Trinity Choir, by Tina Fineberg for The New York Times Trinity Choir at Trinity Wall Street, March 9, 2014The New York Times, Mar. 12, 2014 A very impressive new concert series is underway at historic Trinity Church: six concerts (not five, as I erroneously reported at first) running each Sunday afternoon through April 13. You
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Talea Ensemble at the Austrian Cultural Forum, March 4, 2014The New York Times, March 6, 2014 My report on a Talea Ensemble performance at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, one of many fruitful intersections between those two important institutions. Since there was no Times photographer on hand, I've chosen an older video of Talea's
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The New York Times building, by Richard Drew/AP I'd intended to make the previous "Days between" post the last…until such time as I once again fall so badly behind that I can't locate the 10 to 15 minutes it takes to flog a bit of my writing for The New York Times here on my
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The third and, for now, last next to last in a brief series, this post collects all of my writing for The New York Times between my report on the American Symphony Orchestra concert of November 17 and the collective article "Critics Weigh In on Standout Operas of Recent Decades," both of which I posted
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New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, by Richard Termine/The New York Times New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players: Patience at Symphony Space, January 3, 2014The New York Times, Jan. 6, 2014 Don't know that I would call Patience my favorite Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, as did a friend of mine on Facebook – I love
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Yefim Bronfman with the New York Philharmonic, by Hiroyuki Ito/The New York Times New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, January 2, 2014The New York Times, Jan. 4, 2014 My first concert review of 2014: a terrific program featuring the New York Philharmonic with its current artist in residence, pianist Yefim Bronfman, in a concerto
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Morgan Krauss and Rebekah Heller Rebekah Heller and Ryan Muncy at Spectrum, December 14, 2013Night After Night exclusive I first encountered the music of Morgan Krauss almost exactly one year ago in Chicago, during the valiant "(Re)New Amsterdam" benefit concert organized by Marcos Balter and Doyle Armbrust at the Empty Bottle. The day was long
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American Symphony Orchestra, by Hiroyuki Ito American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, November 17, 2013The New York Times, Nov. 19, 2013 The other of my two reviews that ran on November 19. Another satisfying outing with the A.S.O., and maybe the first review in which I came right out and said that anyone still getting
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John Orfe of Alarm Will Sound, by Hiroyuki Ito Alarm Will Sound at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 16, 2013The New York Times, Nov. 19, 2013 Finally getting around to posting two reviews that ran in the Times last Tuesday. Both concerts were events I specifically requested, and neither disappointed. This Alarm Will Sound
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New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, November 14, 2013The New York Times, Nov. 18, 2013 A brilliant local premiere for Christopher Rouse's gorgeous Oboe Concerto by Liang Wang, Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic, bracketed by rock-solid renditions of Richard Strauss's Don Juan and Also sprach Zarathustra. This was the kind of night
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The New York Times building, by Richard Perry/The New York Times I've promised myself for quite some time now that I'd finally get around to catching up with posting my writing for the Times here with a couple of omnibus posts, and now I'm finally making the time for it. Here's the first, covering everything
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Sometimes the road ahead is simply a matter of being in the right place at the right time…and knowing the right people. Back in the spring of 2000, with my illustrious public-relations career at an impasse after BMG Classics eliminated almost everyone in the department, I got an interesting offer from Larry Blumenfeld, then the
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Jon Gillock, by Kenneth Dickerman/The New York Times Jon Gillock at the Church of the Ascension, March 5, 2013The New York Times, March 7, 2013 A gripping account of Messiaen's awe-inspiring Méditations sur la Mystère de la Sainte Trinité, played by a Messiaen expert on an instrument made to order as part of an ongoing
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Marcello Giordani, Eva-Maria Westbroek and Mark Delavan, by Ruby Washington/The New York Times Francesca da Rimini at the Metropolitan Opera House, March 4, 2013The New York Times, March 7, 2013 I don't often get much direct response to my Times reviews in the form of email; usually that's reserved for social-media channels and the occasional
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Jennifer Koh, by Jennifer Taylor/The New York Times Jennifer Koh at the 92nd Street Y, March 2, 2013The New York Times, March 5, 2013 I specifically remember thinking, as Jennifer Koh managed to give each voice in Bach's fugues its own sound and personality, that the shadows playing on the wall behind her served as
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Collegiate Chorale, by Richard Termine/The New York Times Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall, February 27, 2013The New York Times, March 2, 2013 Here we are at Night After Night post No. 1,000. Feels auspicious, even if it's just a link to the latest of my New York Times reviews. If this particular report comes off
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Matoaka Little Eagle, Cleek Schrey, Mary MacKenzie and Jessica Schmitz, by Julieta Cervantes/The New York Times Avant Music Festival at the Wild Project, February 16, 2013The New York Times, Feb. 20, 2013 Last month I was lucky enough to get to hear a live performance of John Cage's Apartment House 1776 as part of the
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Allison Cook and William Ferguson in Powder Her Face, by Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Powder Her Face at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, February 15, 2013The New York Times, Feb. 18, 2013 New York City Opera opened its latest season with a brash, intelligent and sexy staging of English composer Thomas Adès's notorious debut
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Brentano String Quartet, by Karsten Moran/The New York Times Brentano String Quartet at Zankel Hall, February 12, 2013The New York Times, Feb. 15, 2013 The world premiere of Steven Mackey's thoughtful, engaging One Red Rose, a fascinating reflection on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, shared a program with cheery Haydn and grandiloquently
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