Night After Night

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

Seattle Symphony

  • 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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  • 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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