Night After Night

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

Elliott Carter

  • American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, November 17, 2013

    American Symphony Orchestra, by Hiroyuki Ito American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, November 17, 2013The New York Times, Nov. 19, 2013 The other of my two reviews that ran on November 19. Another satisfying outing with the A.S.O., and maybe the first review in which I came right out and said that anyone still getting

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  • Album review: Elgar and Carter Cello Concertos

    ELGAR, CARTER – Cello ConcertosAlisa Weilerstein, cellist; Berlin Staatskapelle, conducted by Daniel BarenboimDecca 001759202; CDThe New York Times, Oct. 28, 2012 Not that you'd have known it if you only read this review on the web, but I made a bone-headed error that found its way into print on Sunday: Kol Nidre, the barely acknowledged

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  • Life and times.

    Leon Fleisher: In Focus at the 92nd Street YThe New York Times, December 15, 2010 In preparing for this review, I read several sizable chunks from Leon Fleisher’s newly published memoir, My Nine Lives, co-written by my friend and colleague Anne Midgette. What little part I managed to read confirmed what I’d already suspected: the

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