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Added to the blogroll tonight: SpiderMonkey Stories, a new blog from cornetist-composer Taylor Ho Bynum. An ace bandleader in his own right, Bynum has also been heard in a number of recent Anthony Braxton units, including those brilliant Iridium shows I covered here, here and here in March. In the photo above, snapped by Scott…
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The Los Angeles Master Chorale at Alice Tully Hall ("Steve Reich @ 70")The Kirov Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall (Shostakovich finale)The New York Times, October 31, 2006 Playlist: Boris Christoff – Lebendige Vergangenheit (Preiser) Richard Wagner – Das Rheingold – Hans Hotter, Gustav Neidlinger, Rudolf Lustig, Ludwig Weber, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele/Joseph Keilberth (Testament, due…
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CD review: C.P.E Bach – Symphonies Nos. 1-4 (H. 663-66); Cello Concerto in A (H. 439)Allison McGillivray, cellist; English Concert, conducted by Andrew ManzeHarmonia Mundi France 907403; CDThe New York Times, October 29, 2006(ArkivMusic, Barnes & Noble)
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Out late last night and gruesomely squashed by work today, I’m not going to be able to reflect on last night’s set by Cecil Taylor, Henry Grimes and Pheeroan akLaff at Iridium in time to persuade fence sitters that this is almost without question the most significant, satisfying band hit by Taylor that this city…
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I’ve posted a few times recently about my pal and TONY colleague Hank Shteamer’s blog, Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches. When I dropped by there earlier tonight, I was reminded all over again why I hope everyone out there takes a minute to head over that way. The overall tone of Hank’s posts is a…
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Valery Gergiev returned to Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center this week, to resume the complete Shostakovich symphony cycle he launched here last spring with the Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre and the Rotterdam Philharmonic. (Reviews of the earlier concerts are here, here, here and here.) Gergiev is finishing the cycle in three concerts…
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The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully HallThe New York Times, October 23, 2006 ===== Sunday night’s concert at Zankel Hall by Steve Reich and Musicians proved revelatory in an unexpected way. Not for the video-aided performances of Cello Counterpoint by Maya Beiser and Piano/Video Phase by David Cossin: these were expected…
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CD review: Anthony Coleman – Pushy BluenessDoug Wieselman, clarinetist; Marco Cappelli, guitarist; Jim Pugliese, percussionist; Joseph Kubera, pianist; Anthony Coleman, keyboardist; Tilt Brass BandTzadik TZ 8024; CDThe New York Times, October 22, 2006(ArkivMusic, Barnes & Noble, Tzadik)
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Xian Zhang, the New York Philharmonic’s associate conductor, cuts a diminutive figure on the podium, but good lord, what amazingly powerful sounds she coaxed out of the orchestra on Saturday night! Practically everyone I know was at the Steve Reich All-Stars affair at Carnegie Hall — apart from Bruce Hodges, who was seated across the…
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A few days ago, I linked up to the blog my friend and Time Out New York colleague Hank Shteamer maintains for his band, while offering excuses for not mentioning the band’s name. And already there’s a further development: Hank has launched a new blog, Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches, devoted exclusively to his voracious…
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Can someone explain to me just what went wrong between the Philadelphia Orchestra and its music director, Christoph Eschenbach? Late on Friday afternoon, I received a press release announcing that Eschenbach’s tenure will end at the close of the 2007-08 season, after only three years on the job. I can’t say that I’m surprised, given…
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Jon Gibson and Miriam Seidel’s Violet Fire at the Brooklyn Academy of MusicThe New York Times, October 20, 2006
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Congratulations to the New York Mets for a thrill ride of a season. Sure, it didn’t end up the way we all hoped. Even so, it was one hell of an adventure right up to the very end…well, okay, maybe not Carlos Beltran’s final at-bat. But everything before that was a genuine treat. We appreciate…
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Riffing on Alex Ross’s oft-cited "Night of 10 New Music Concerts" post from last February (as Bruce Hodges did a little more than a week ago in a post titled "My head hurts"), poring over the concert offerings for Saturday, October 28 is enough to make me want to be in at least four places…
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Maxim Vengerov, Alisa Weilerstein and Lilya Zilberstein at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, October 16, 2006 Playlist: Ethel – Light (Cantaloupe) John King – Allsteel; ‘Round Sunrise; Lightning Slide – Ethel (Tzadik) Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 – Helena Juntunen, Katarina Karnéus, Daniel Norman, Neal Davies; Minnesota Orchestra and Chorale/Osmo Vänskä (Bis) Antonio…
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The only reason I’ve never linked to my Time Out New York colleague Hank Shteamer’s blog until now is because it shares a not-for-the-workplace name with his excellent math-metal band. My excuse — and I think it’s a valid one, if perhaps slightly highfalutin’ — is that I don’t want anything to interfere with my…
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No, I haven’t been resting on any laurels; in fact, I’ve been plenty busy over the last stretch of nights. I actually got halfway through blogging one particular evening’s activities, only to have Time Warner Cable peter out on me. (Happily, I was able to save what I’d written.) But at this distance from most…
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The Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, October 9, 2006
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This afternoon, I received a most unexpected phone call from a friendly representative of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), who called to tell me that I’d won this year’s Deems Taylor Internet Award for my nocturnal ruminations here at Night After Night. According to the organization’s website, "The ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award…
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Per the newly bi-metropolitan and everly-AbFab opera blog Wellsung, I note that Chalkenteros — an operaphile well known for his enthusiastic and perceptive commentary at Parterre Box and, of course, Wellsung — has finally kicked up his own NYC-centric opera blog, Marginalia. And in so noting, I’ve also discovered that he and I have a…
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