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New York Philharmonic Messiah at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, December 19, 2008
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When the Features team at Time Out New York asked me and my fellow music staffers to find a handful of crafty local musicians who would be willing to write new holiday songs for the magazine — on a very short deadline, and for the sheer glory of it — I thought we'd come up…
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Isaac Mizrahi does Peter and the Wolf at the Guggenheim MuseumThe New York Times, December 17, 2008
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Making Music: Elliott Carter at Zankel Hall and New York Philharmonic "Day of Carter" at the Kaplan PenthouseThe New York Times, December 16, 2008
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Peter Serkin and the Brentano String Quartet at the 92nd Street YThe New York Times, December 15, 2008
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Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan at Zankel HallThe New York Times, December 11, 2008
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Gilbert Kaplan conducts the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, December 10, 2008 Remember this one, then go here, here and especially here. We'll revisit this topic shortly.
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American Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, December 9, 2008
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Kronos Quartet at Zankel HallThe New York Times, December 8, 2008 Begging everyone's indulgence, but it's been another one of those weeks in which I never had a spare moment to get my Times reviews posted here. (The reason why I feel compelled to catch up right now — literally in the middle of the…
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Piotr Anderszewski at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, December 5, 2008 It is entirely possible, in retrospect, that I might actually have understated the terrifying isolation and despair Anderszewski brought out in the final movement of Beethoven's Op. 130 110. As I told one of my editors on the phone yesterday, I was so shaken…
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Lost Dog New Music Ensemble plays Sequenza 21 at Waltz-AstoriaThe New York Times, December 3, 2008
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Electrum Duo at BargemusicThe New York Times, December 1, 2008
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John Zorn's Shir Ha-Shirim at the Guggenheim MuseumThe New York Times, November 27, 2008
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Trio Mediaeval at Corpus Christi ChurchThe New York Times, November 26, 2008
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In my copious spare time (heh) I've been known to pen brief CD reviews for the Internet music service eMusic. Somehow, happily, over there I'm enlisted as a jazz specialist, which is good for keeping that work from conflicting with my regular gigs. And a true bounty arrived just this week, as eMusic added a…
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Many of my friends and colleagues first became acquainted with the United Palace, a magnificent old auditorium on Broadway at 175th Street in Washington Heights, through Carnegie Hall presentations: either last year's "Rite of Spring" Project or this year's sequel, the "Bernstein Mass" Project. Having missed both of those, I finally visited the hall last…
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"Fire Postpones Chamber Concert"The New York Times, November 21, 2008 My first news brief for the Times, this is a paragraph about what transpired when I turned up on Thursday night for the first event in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's "Night Fantasies" mini-festival. The concert was rescheduled for this afternoon at 1pm;…
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New York Festival of Song at Merkin Concert HallThe New York Times, November 19, 2008
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Warsaw Philharmonic at the Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe New York Times, November 18, 2008
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American Composers Orchestra at Zankel Hall and Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre: The Love for Three Oranges at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, November 17, 2008 Two notes regarding the second of these articles. First, in the print edition of the Times, the review was credited to Vivien Schweitzer; a correction was added…
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