Allan Kozinn

  • Virgil Thomson "…reviews, though couched in opinion—which is what makes them either illuminating or maddening but also, one hopes, compelling and worth debating—are fundamentally reportage. They are the chronicles of the cultural world, accounts of who did what on a given night, in a given hall, before hundreds or thousands of people interested enough to

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  • Ensemble Mise-en, by Ruby Washington/The New York Times Moving Sounds at the Czech Center, September 14, 2012The New York Times, Sept. 17, 2012 I've reviewed Moving Sounds performances twice before in The New York Times, once last year and once the year before. Allan Kozinn did the honors the first year, and also reviewed a

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  • Shout it out loud.

    Photograph: Ruby Washington/The New York Times Joshua Bell with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, August 8, 2011 Along with the amazing Ruby Washington photograph you see above, my review of last Friday's Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra concert is in The New York Times today. I'd previously stated that

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  • Photograph: Chad Batka/The New York Times "White Light Festival: An Act of Testimony"The New York Times Artsbeat, November 19, 2010 Over the past few weeks I've reviewed several events in Lincoln Center's inaugural White Light Festival, a series devoted to exploring spirituality in music — or, more specifically, to promoting the notion that some kinds

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