Steve Smith
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Kirill Gerstein and Steven Isserlis, by Ian Douglas/The New York Times Steven Isserlis and Kirill Gerstein at the 92nd Street Y, January 27, 2013The New York Times, Jan. 29, 2013 That the brilliant cellist Steven Isserlis performs regularly at the 92nd Street Y is one of the venue's crowning glories, no matter what repertoire he
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Dorothea Röschmann, by Hiroyuki Ito/The New York Times Dorothea Röschmann and Malcolm Martineau at Zankel Hall, January 23, 2013The New York Times, Jan. 25, 2013 As I confessed among social-media circles already, of all the things I'm called upon to cover, lieder recitals are probably what I feel least comfortable writing about. Not that there
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Laurelyn Watson Chase, Stephen Quint and the NYGASP chorus, by Richard Termine/The New York Times The Yeomen of the Guard at City Center, January 18, 2013The New York Times, Jan. 22, 2013 I've written several times before about my abiding love for the Gilbert & Sullivan canon, and for the work done on its behalf
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Amanda Keil, by Ruby Washington/The New York Times Musica Nuova at Le Poisson Rouge, January 14, 2013The New York Times, Jan. 18, 2013 Congratulations to Amanda Keil and her early-music ensemble, Musica Nuova, and to director Beth Greenberg for demonstrating in "The Arianna Project" that a mix of Ariadne-inspired monodramas by Monteverdi, Haydn and Alessandro
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Zac Ballard and Christopher Burchett in Soldier Songs, by Ruby Washington/The New York Times Soldier Songs at Pace University, January 11, 2013The New York Times, Jan. 15, 2013 So glad to have seen David T. Little's first musical-theater piece, especially having been so deeply impressed and moved by his subsequent opera, Dog Days (reviewed here
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Momenta Quartet, by Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Momenta Quartet at the Stone, January 8, 2013The New York Times, Jan. 10, 2013 Another review from the series curated by David Fulmer at the Stone in January, now concluded. As it happens, Fulmer's stint was among the last of the two-week curatorial runs that have
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New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, by Richard Termine/The New York Times New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at Prudential Hall, January 4, 2013The New York Times, Jan. 7, 2013 What I posted on Twitter immediately after this concert still captures my mood succinctly: Played well, too, and a better match for Holst's The Planets than I'd anticipated, too.
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Conor Hanick, by Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times Conor Hanick and String Noise at the Stone, January 2, 2012The New York Times, Jan. 4, 2013 What an unexpected treat to discover a gifted pianist previously unknown to me…and how vaguely humiliating to discover that not only is pretty much everyone I know already aware
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Sarah Chalfy, Dongsok Shin and Artek, by Hiroyuki Ito/The New York Times Artek at Immanuel Lutheran Church, December 29, 2012The New York Times, Jan. 2, 2012
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Elizabeth Futral, Jayce Ogren and members of the New York Philharmonic, by Richard Termine/The New York Times The New York Philharmonic Contact! at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 21, 2012The New York Times, Dec. 27, 2012 A return to old times for the New York Philharmonic's new-music run-out series, at least for one night.
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Grey Mcmurray with So Percussion, by Sara Krulwich/The New York Times So Percussion at the Brooklyn Academy of MusicThe New York Times, Dec. 21, 2012 A review of Where (we) Live, the latest multimedia beguilement from So Percussion, who use vivid imagination and a solid grounding in John Cage's music to create a thoughtful meditation
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Dominic Johnson and Ellen McSweeney of Chicago Q Ensemble, by Marc Perlish "After the Deluge, an Outpouring of Support From Afar"The New York Times, Dec. 19, 2012 A notebook about (Re)New Amsterdam, a remarkable show of solidarity in which Chicago's young, vital new-music community participated in an afternoon marathon concert meant to raise funds for
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Aeolian Chamber Players at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia, December 14, 2012The New York Times, Dec. 17, 2012 Not a bad thing at all to be able to celebrate your 50th anniversary with a program of works that Ralph Shapey, Luciano Berio, George Crumb, William Bolcom and Huang Ruo wrote for you, eh?
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Einstein on the Beach at BAM, by Sara Krulwich/The New York Times "Curtains Fall, But Operas Reverberate"The New York Times, Dec. 16, 2012 A year-end essay for The New York Times about the two events that had the most enduring impact for me in 2012: Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach, which
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Mantra Percussion, by Ian Douglas/The New York Times Mantra Percussion at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, December 13, 2012The New York Times, Dec. 15, 2013 Michael Gordon's new percussion sextet, Timber, ended up on both my year-end Top 10 list for Time Out New York (details of which will come in a subsequent post) and
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Kyle Bielfield in Curlew River, by Ruby Washington/The New York Times Curlew River and Riders to the Sea at the Juilliard School, December 9, 2012The New York Times, Dec. 11, 2012 A tremendous double bill of Britten's church parable Curlew River and Vaughan Williams's opera Riders to the Sea, presented by what might just be
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Wu Man, by Hiroyuki Ito/The New York Times Wu Man at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia, December 6, 2012The New York Times, Dec. 10, 2012 Beyond its intrinsic merits, this concert marked the start of a promising new series of intimate concerts hosted by World Music Institute, an invaluable organization that brings all manner of worthy
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Juraj Valcuha conducts the New York Philharmonic, by Hiroyuki Ito/The New York Times The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, December 5, 2012The New York Times, Dec. 7, 2012 An auspicious debut for conductor Juraj Valcuha.
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Stephen O'Brien in The Sorcerer, by Richard Termine/The New York Times The Sorcerer at Gerald W. Lynch Theater, December 1, 2012The New York Times, Dec. 4, 2012 Few companies in my experience do Gilbert & Sullivan as honorably and charmingly as Albert Bergeret's New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, whose annual three-show residency at the
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