Night After Night

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

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra

  • Xian Zhang: A Conductor Becomes a Virtual-Concert Jet-Setter.

    Xian Zhang conducting the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Photograph: Dan Graziano A Conductor Becomes a Virtual-Concert Jet-SetterThe New York TimesNov. 4, 2020 Following impressive outings with the Seattle Symphony and Houston Symphony, conductor Xian Zhang is headed to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for important concerts featuring premieres by Nokuthula Ngwenyama and Tyshawn Sorey this Thursday

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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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  • New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at Prudential Hall, January 4, 2013

    New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, by Richard Termine/The New York Times New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at Prudential Hall, January 4, 2013The New York Times, Jan. 7, 2013 What I posted on Twitter immediately after this concert still captures my mood succinctly: Played well, too, and a better match for Holst's The Planets than I'd anticipated, too.

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  • Day and night.

    New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and Claire Chase at Weill Recital HallThe New York Times, April 24, 2010 Just because violinist Jennifer Koh and flutist Claire Chase both spend a great deal of time playing contemporary works — and playing them fiercely — is no reason to doubt that

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