The New York Times
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Tan Dun Martial Arts Trilogy in Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center Out of DoorsThe New York Times, August 15, 2011 Snapped with my iPhone, the image above depicts one of those moments described in the last paragraph of my Times review, when martial-arts movie images ceded to live-action video of Tan Dun conducting. Here he's leading
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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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Photograph: Ruby Washington/The New York Times Joshua Bell with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, August 8, 2011 Along with the amazing Ruby Washington photograph you see above, my review of last Friday's Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra concert is in The New York Times today. I'd previously stated that
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"Billy Bang, Jazz Violinist Inspired by Vietnam Experience, Dies at 63"The New York Times, April 17, 2011 Probably no more than a year after I moved to New York in 1993, my head full of dazzling notions about downtown-jazz royalty developed during previous years of listening and learning from afar in Texas, I was out
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New Juilliard Ensemble at Alice Tully HallThe New York Times, April 12, 2011
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21c Liederabend, Night One, at the KitchenThe New York Times, April 9, 2011 An outstanding event, but not my favorite piece of writing. Deadlines, word counts and basic human frailties are a continual challenge, and you don't win them all.
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WQXR "Trout Week": Ebène Quartet at the Greene SpaceThe New York Times, April 7, 2011 Between musical selections midway through this show, host Bill McGlaughlin asked the members of the Ebène Quartet how many concerts they present in a typical year. Around 120 was the response. After a few more tunes – "Misirlou," "Libertango," the
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Anne-Sophie Mutter, Roman Patkoló and members of the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, April 6, 2011 What kind of musician attracts Anne-Sophie Mutter's attention? Watch bassist Roman Patkoló playing Pablo de Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen, a familiar violin showpiece, and you'll know the answer.
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Anne-Sophie Mutter with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, April 2, 2011 In tempus praesens, the solemn, beautiful violin concerto by Sofia Gubaidulina that Anne-Sophie Mutter just performed with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New York Philharmonic, is the subject of a recent documentary film, Sophia: Biography of a Violin
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American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, March 31, 2011
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The Belcea Quartet at Alice Tully HallThe New York Times, March 30, 2011
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The Juilliard Orchestra at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, March 29, 2011
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The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, March 25, 2011 Writing reviews is seldom easy, but this one was an exception; somehow, once the opening bit came to me, the rest flowed without much effort. I had real fun with it. And yes, the opening quotes are genuine.
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Center for Contemporary Opera The Secret Agent at the Kaye PlayhouseThe New York Times, March 22, 2011
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Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien at Weill Recital HallThe New York Times, March 22, 2011 Already deeply impressed with Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova through her remarkable series of recordings on the Hyperion label — one of which I reviewed for the Times, here — I was thrilled to finally get a chance to hear her
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"Avant-Garde Dancing Feet, Tickling Composers' Minds"The New York Times, March 18, 2011 An article about the making of Music for Merce, a newish 10-CD box set issued by the invaluable New World record label. The box is devoted to a well-chosen cross-section of the myriad musical scores that came into being through the auspices of
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Emerson String Quartet with James Galway at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, March 14, 2011
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Les Arts Florissants Anacréon and Pygmalion at Alice Tully HallThe New York Times, March 14, 2011
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"Joe Morello, Drummer with Dave Brubeck Quartet, Dies at 82"The New York Times, March 13, 2011 My first published Times obituary: not a task one wants to take up, but an assignment I'm glad to have landed. Partly it's because both as a percussionist in training and as a budding jazz fan I grew up
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