Night After Night

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

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  • 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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  • Bard Music Festival, Weekend One, at Bard College, August 10-12, 2012

    Camille Saint-Saëns   Bard Music Festival, Weekend One, at Bard College, August 10-12, 2012The New York Times, August 14, 2012 For an unrepentent music geek like me, the Bard Music Festival is simply irresistible: a fabulous wealth of music by a major composer from the classical tradition, surrounded and contextualized with works by forebears, peers,

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  • Le Roi Malgré Lui at Bard SummerScape, July 29, 2012

      Le Roi Malgré Lui, by Cory Weaver Le Roi Malgré Lui at Bard SummerScapeThe New York Times, July 31, 2012 Did it constitute a cop-out when I refused to divulge details of Thaddeus Strassberger's staging for this elegantly daffy Chabrier opera? I had a hard time deciding, not least because many aspects of the

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  • Found all the parts.

    American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, March 31, 2011

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