by Kile Smith | May 21, 2008 | Classical music, Lutheran, Music Composition, New Compositions, Radio
Just interviewed yesterday by the delightful and knowledgeable Ed Cunningham at WHYY 90.9 FM in Philadelphia for Showcase, which airs Sundays at 8pm. Joan Kimball and Bob Wiemken of Piffaro, The Renaissance Band brought me along and we talked mostly about Vespers,...
by Kile Smith | May 18, 2008 | Classical music, Radio
I’ll have a new show on WRTI, on the HD2 side, all contemporary American music, calling it Now is the Time, Sunday nights at 10, planning to get it on air the first Sunday in June, so much terrific stuff out there, having a blast getting these shows together, stay...
by Kile Smith | May 17, 2008 | Classical music, Music Composition, New Compositions
The Crossing has commissioned me to write them an a cappella New Work for performance in the spring of 2009, on the haunting poetry of Paul Celan, which I’m just starting to get to know; can’t wait to work with Donald Nally and these wonderful singers again, after my...
by Kile Smith | May 16, 2008 | hymn, Lutheran, Music Composition, New Compositions
A recent hymn, O Lord, Our Lord, Your Excellent Name, my versification and setting of Psalm 8, has been selected for publication in the next Lutheran Forum, summer of 2008… speaking of hymns, we just sang on Pentecost Sunday the newest collaboration with Rev. Michael...
by Kile Smith | May 14, 2008 | Classical music, Music Composition, New Compositions
Following up on our very successful project with David Kim, Paul Jones has asked me and other colleagues for some New Works for cello and piano this time, for Anne Martindale Williams, Principal Cello of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; as with the violin/piano...
