التصنيف: Live reviews
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New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at Prudential Hall, January 4, 2013
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 and String Noise at the Stone, January 2, 2012
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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Artek at Immanuel Lutheran Church, December 29, 2012
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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The New York Philharmonic Contact! at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 21, 2012
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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So Percussion at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, December 19, 2012
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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(Re)New Amsterdam at the Empty Bottle, December 16, 2012
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, 2012
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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Mantra Percussion at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, December 13, 2012
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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Curlew River and Riders to the Sea at the Juilliard School, December 9, 2012
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…