Night After Night

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

Phyllis Chen

  • Double vision.

    International Contemporary Ensemble at Alice Tully Hall and the Kaplan PlayhouseThe New York Times, August 9, 2011 Everything about these two Stravinsky-centric concerts was hugely admirable. But the opening stretch of the Tully concert — an unmanned "player piano" piece seguing into four small-ensemble pieces in tight sequence, accompanied by thoughtful lighting design — was

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  • Ad libitum.

    Toy-piano advocate Phyllis Chen opens the new season of Barbès Classical—a casual series produced by the Concert Artists Guild's New Music/New Places initiative—on Sunday, September 12 at Barbès in Park Slope, Brooklyn, also celebrating the release of her new CD, Mesmers. (PhyllisChen.net) The partisans of queer opera blog Parterre Box are running up a tally

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