Night After Night

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

Salvatore Sciarrino

  • Il Cerchio Tagliato dei Suoni at the Guggenheim Museum, November 20, 2012

    Some of the tiniest migranti, by Julieta Cervantes/The New York Times Il Cerchio Tagliato dei Suoni at the Guggenheim Museum, November 20, 2012The New York Times, Nov. 22, 2012 104 flutes in a U.S. premiere by Salvatore Sciarrino…and one of my favorite Times headlines, ever. What's not to love?

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  • 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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