Night After Night

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

Oregon Symphony

  • Hear, now: Gabriella Smith.

    On a gloomy morning in an uncertain world, finding some measure of joyous reassurance in the ecstatic whoops and whorls of Gabriella Smith's 'Carrot Revolution,' played emphatically by @aizuriquartet. https://t.co/tHyqNOJNx3 via @YouTube — Steve Smith (@nightafternight) January 3, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Gabriella Smith is a composer other composers evidently like to recommend, to their listeners and

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  • RIP James DePreist (Nov. 21, 1936–Feb. 8, 2013)

    Musical America reports that the great American conductor James DePreist passed away this morning in Scottsdale, AZ, at 76, due to complications from an earlier heart attack. Born in Philadelphia in 1936, and the nephew of Marion Anderson, Mr. DePreist was a prominent, gifted musician who won the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition for Conductors

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