Steve Smith
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"1 Composer, 2 Centuries, Many Picks"The New York Times, May 28, 2010 BALLADES, SCHERZOS Arthur Rubinstein, pianist (RCA Red Seal 82876 61396-2; CD).Amazon / Amazon MP3* / ArkivMusic / Barnes & Noble / eMusic* / iTunes* NOCTURNES Ivan Moravec, pianist (Nonesuch 9 79233 2; two CDs).Amazon / Amazon MP3 / ArkivMusic / Barnes & Noble…
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"The Week Ahead – May 23-29"The New York Times, May 23, 2010 Scroll halfway down the linked page for my brief preview of the program that the outstanding chamber ensemble Signal will present at Merkin Concert Hall on Thursday, May 27, pairing the U.S. debut of The Corridor, a dramatic scena by Harrison Birtwistle, with…
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Yundi at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, May 22, 2010
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"Riding Herd on the Wild Orchestra"The New York Times, May 16, 2010 A review of three new releases featuring music by French composer Pascal Dusapin: Solos Pour OrchestreLiège Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Pascal RophéNaïve MO 782180; 2CDsAmazon / Amazon MP3 / ArkivMusic / Barnes & Noble / iTunes Concerto(s) Montpellier National Orchestra, conducted by…
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Pro Arte Quartet at Weill Recital HallThe New York Times, May 15, 2010
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The Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully HallThe New York Times, May 11, 2010
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Look & Listen Festival at the Chelsea Art Museum and Lulu at the Metropolitan OperaThe New York Times, May 10, 2010
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Thomas Quasthoff and Justus Zeyen at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, May 7, 2010
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Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick at the Dallas OperaThe New York Times, May 3, 2010
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New Juilliard Ensemble at the Peter Jay Sharp TheaterThe New York Times, May 1, 2010 Posting this one slightly late after returning from Dallas, where I caught the premiere of Jake Heggie's new opera, Moby-Dick. More on that soon. var LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_INFINITE_LOOP_COUNT = 300; var LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_MAX_HIGHLIGHTS = 100; var LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_IFRAME_TOP_ID = "leoHighlights_top_iframe"; var LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_IFRAME_BOTTOM_ID = "leoHighlights_bottom_iframe";…
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Spinning in my head during the week of April 11-17, 2010: King Crimson – Live in Warsaw, June 11, 2000 (DGM King Crimson Collectors Club) Christopher Rouse – Odna Zhizn – New York Philharmonic/Alan Gilbert (New York Philharmonic/iTunes) Laurie Anderson – Homeland (Nonesuch, due out June 15) Richard Strauss – An Alpine Symphony –…
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The Jazz Journalists Association has just announced its nominations for the 2010 JJA Jazz Awards have just been announced, and congratulations are due to saxophonist, bandleader and composer Steve Lehman, who earned three nods this year: composer of the year, record of the year (for the exhilarating Travail, Transformation and Flow) and alto saxophonist of…
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Photograph by Richard Termine/The New York Times Ne(x)tworks at 110 Livingston StreetThe New York Times, April 13, 2009 And we're back, after the longest break I've ever taken from blogging. Let's not dwell on the reasons why I haven't posted anything since late December; suffice it to say that for the first few months I…
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Album review: Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles, Diamonds in the DarkSugar Hill Records, 2007Time Out New York, June 7–13, 2007Five stars (out of five) Had Boston-based singer Sarah Borges come along in the mid-1960s, she surely would have been roped into the Capitol stable alongside like-minded mavericks such as Wanda Jackson, Merle Haggard and…
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