التصنيف: Live reviews
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Tweetview: Jennifer Koh plays Chris Cerrone with the Detroit Symphony.
THREE MINUTES until @DetroitSymphony live webcast of two new pieces, Roshanne Etezady's 'Diamond Rain' and @chriscerrone Violin Concerto (with the fabulous @JenniferKoh1), plus Tchaikovsky's 'Pathétique,' all conducted by @PeterOundjian here: https://t.co/78LDdjtX9F #DSOLive pic.twitter.com/GH8g0Yb7yf — Steve Smith (@nightafternight) May 26, 2018 That was a very fine spoken introduction @PeterOundjian just offered… informative, optimistic, funny when warranted,…
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Performance Review: David Lang, the loser
Originally published by National Sawdust Log on Sept. 30, 2016. David Lang: the loser Presented by BAM Next Wave FestivalHoward Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NYReviewed on Sept. 9, 2016 By Steve SmithPhotographs: Richard Termine If you’ve followed the career of David Lang, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and co-founder of the revolutionary…
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Live review: Guerilla Opera ‘Beowulf,’ Boston Conservatory, May 20, 2016
Brian Church and Aliana de la Guardia in 'Beowulf,' by Liz Linder Photography "In Hannah Lash's 'Beowulf,' an unconventional monster to grapple"Boston Globe, May 22, 2016 My review of Beowulf, the melancholy, moving new 80-minute chamber opera by composer Hannah Lash, presented by Guerilla Opera in its world premiere last Friday, ran in Sunday's Globe.…
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Live review: JACK Quartet + IRCAM at the Institute of Contemporary Art, April 29, 2016
"Jack Quartet, IRCAM prove electric company at ICA"Boston Globe, May 3, 2016 It's always good to catch up with the JACK Quartet, whose name I'll render here in its preferred all-caps-as-acronym form even if the newspaper declined to do so. (The group's fans know "JACK" = John Pickford Richards, Ari Streisfeld, Christopher Otto, and Kevin…
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Live review: Boston Modern Orchestra Project “Child Alice,” Jordan Hall, March 25, 2016
Courtenay Budd, David Del Tredici, and Gil Rose with BMOP, by Kathy Wittman "Rose, BMOP wax ecstatic in glorious, unsettling 'Alice'"Boston Globe, February 27, 2016 There are times, and they are not infrequent, when I worry that I've lost my knack for doing the things I used to do regularly at The New York Times,…
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Live review: Coheed & Cambria, House of Blues, Feb. 22, 2016
Coheed & Cambria, by Ben Stas for the Boston Globe "Coheed & Cambria, unmasked but still heroic at House of Blues"Boston Globe, February 24, 2016 Long months after I spoke with Claudio Sanchez about The Color Before the Sun, the revealing newest album from prog-punk quartet Coheed & Cambria, for the Rolling Stone website last…
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Live review: Yes + Toto, Foxwoods Resort Casino, Aug. 7, 2015
Billy Sherwood, by Leslie dela Vega for Rolling Stone Yes + TotoFoxwoods Resort Casino, Mashantucket, MA, Aug. 7, 2015RollingStone.comAugust 8, 2015 My second piece of music writing for Rolling Stone, and a review I ought to have posted a long time ago… the very first show by Yes following the untimely death of founding bassist-vocalist…