Night After Night

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

Suffocation

  • Talea Ensemble at the Austrian Cultural Forum, March 4, 2014

    Talea Ensemble at the Austrian Cultural Forum, March 4, 2014The New York Times, March 6, 2014 My report on a Talea Ensemble performance at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, one of many fruitful intersections between those two important institutions. Since there was no Times photographer on hand, I've chosen an older video of Talea's

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  • Playlist, April 17, 2010.

      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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