Night After Night

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

Hilary Hahn

  • 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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  • Geek out.

    Hilary Hahn and Cory Smythe at the StoneThe New York Times, October 13, 2011 The video embedded above shows the grand finale of Hilary Hahn's holy-rolling "Ives geek-out party" (her term) at the Stone, John Zorn's East Village new-music space, on Monday night. Hahn's disc of Ives's four sonatas, recorded with Valentina Lisitsa for Deutsche

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