Night After Night

Writing, a blog, and a newsletter. By Steve Smith.

Éliane Radigue

  • Happy Birthday, Éliane Radigue.

    The extraordinary French composer Éliane Radigue was born on this day in 1932, and celebrated her 88th birthday today as an artist whose star very much appears to be in the ascendant. Her recordings are widely available now, in lovingly prepared editions with beautifully restored sound. Occam Ocean – the body of acoustic work Radigue

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  • Days between: New York Times writing, August 20–November 10, 2013

    The second in an occasional (though not occasional enough) series that started with a blog post in October, here's another omnibus entry covering all of my writing for The New York Times between the Bard Music Festival in mid-August and the New York Philharmonic concert of November 14, both blogged up individually elsewhere. The first

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