التصنيف: Live reviews
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Trinity Choir at Trinity Wall Street, March 9, 2014
Trinity Choir, by Tina Fineberg for The New York Times Trinity Choir at Trinity Wall Street, March 9, 2014The New York Times, Mar. 12, 2014 A very impressive new concert series is underway at historic Trinity Church: six concerts (not five, as I erroneously reported at first) running each Sunday afternoon through April 13. You…
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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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Days between: New York Times writing, January 10–29, 2014
The New York Times building, by Richard Drew/AP I'd intended to make the previous "Days between" post the last…until such time as I once again fall so badly behind that I can't locate the 10 to 15 minutes it takes to flog a bit of my writing for The New York Times here on my…
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Days between: New York Times writing, November 25–December 30, 2013
The third and, for now, last next to last in a brief series, this post collects all of my writing for The New York Times between my report on the American Symphony Orchestra concert of November 17 and the collective article "Critics Weigh In on Standout Operas of Recent Decades," both of which I posted…
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New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players: Patience at Symphony Space, January 3, 2014
New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, by Richard Termine/The New York Times New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players: Patience at Symphony Space, January 3, 2014The New York Times, Jan. 6, 2014 Don't know that I would call Patience my favorite Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, as did a friend of mine on Facebook – I love…
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New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, January 2, 2014
Yefim Bronfman with the New York Philharmonic, by Hiroyuki Ito/The New York Times New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, January 2, 2014The New York Times, Jan. 4, 2014 My first concert review of 2014: a terrific program featuring the New York Philharmonic with its current artist in residence, pianist Yefim Bronfman, in a concerto…
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Rebekah Heller and Ryan Muncy at Spectrum, December 14, 2013
Morgan Krauss and Rebekah Heller Rebekah Heller and Ryan Muncy at Spectrum, December 14, 2013Night After Night exclusive I first encountered the music of Morgan Krauss almost exactly one year ago in Chicago, during the valiant "(Re)New Amsterdam" benefit concert organized by Marcos Balter and Doyle Armbrust at the Empty Bottle. The day was long…
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American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, November 17, 2013
American Symphony Orchestra, by Hiroyuki Ito American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, November 17, 2013The New York Times, Nov. 19, 2013 The other of my two reviews that ran on November 19. Another satisfying outing with the A.S.O., and maybe the first review in which I came right out and said that anyone still getting…
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Alarm Will Sound at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 16, 2013
John Orfe of Alarm Will Sound, by Hiroyuki Ito Alarm Will Sound at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 16, 2013The New York Times, Nov. 19, 2013 Finally getting around to posting two reviews that ran in the Times last Tuesday. Both concerts were events I specifically requested, and neither disappointed. This Alarm Will Sound…