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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the January 27, 2020 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates January 22-28. (Links lead to detailed listings on the New Yorker website.) Scott Johnson with ContemporaneousRoulette, Brooklyn; Jan. 23 at 8 Guitarist and composer Johnson, innovator of a signature speech-based style, presents a
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Congratulations to Sean Meehan, an improvising percussionist and sound artist with a shaman's knack for conjuring entire worlds out of meager base elements—the video above is a perfect example. As announced in an Artforum article published late this afternoon (and shared by Sarah Hennies on Twitter this evening), Meehan has been named one of five
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Jan. 20 update: As confirmed by a Juilliard representative, this concert is happening in the Juilliard School's Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, not at Alice Tully Hall. The Sharp Theatre is a smaller space, which means better proximity but less capacity. So if you're interested in tickets, don't delay… and you'll find them only at the
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the January 20, 2020 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates January 15-21. (Links lead to detailed listings on the New Yorker website.) Chamber Music Society of Lincoln CenterKaplan Penthouse, Lincoln Center; Jan. 16 at 7:30 Karlheinz Stockhausen's visionary Kontakte anchors a fine program
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Missy Mazzoli (Photograph: Marylene Mey) A little more than a decade ago, when I was at the Metropolitan Opera to see Leoš Janáček's From the House of the Dead, I spotted the composer Missy Mazzoli passing by in the outer lobby. We'd known each other for a few years by then, and waved to one
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Say hello to my first obsession of 2020: "King of Thumbs," a selection from Reality Rounds, a new album by the composer and vocalist Alex Dowling. I find this realization of a cybernetic vocal consort – created by four singers individually equipped with AutoTune and other effects, and synthesizer accompaniment – completely mesmerizing. In this
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On a gloomy morning in an uncertain world, finding some measure of joyous reassurance in the ecstatic whoops and whorls of Gabriella Smith's 'Carrot Revolution,' played emphatically by @aizuriquartet. https://t.co/tHyqNOJNx3 via @YouTube — Steve Smith (@nightafternight) January 3, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Gabriella Smith is a composer other composers evidently like to recommend, to their listeners and
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Among the many, many things to admire about the newly expanded Museum of Modern Art – which officially opens to the public on Monday, Oct. 21, but actually had a secret soft opening on Sunday, Oct. 20 – is an installation of Rainforest V (variation 1), as conceived by the iconic experimental composer/performer David Tudor,
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>>news added to the end of this post…<< The Morton Feldman Piano box by Philip Thomas on Another Timbre unquestionably is among this year’s foremost achievements… but Philip has another new CD that's worth your attention, as well: as if as features original compositions and Derek Bailey transcriptions (!!) by Chris Burn, just out on
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the May 13, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates May 8-14. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link]
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the May 6, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates May 1-7. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link]
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the April 29, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates April 24-30. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link] [link]
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the March 18, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates March 13-19. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the February 18/February 25, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates February 13-26. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link]
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the January 14, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates January 9-15. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link]
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the January 7, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates January 2-8. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link]
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the December 24/December 31, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates December 19-January 1. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link] [link]
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Digging in deep, really deep, to compile year-end lists is both exhilarating and exhausting, illuminating and intimidating. Crucial challenge: Recall the impact of things that happened many months ago, then balance against impact of things that just happened. — Steve Smith (@nightafternight) December 12, 2018 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js And you also want to try to ignore the
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the December 17, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates December 12-18. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] Fun fact: Editors excised two words from the very end of the above listing: "(Mine did.)" [link] [link] [link] For whatever reason, as I'm typing
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the December 10, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates December 5-11. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link]
Night After Night 