by Kile Smith | Oct 31, 2008 | CD Reviews, CDs, Classical music, My CD Reviews, new music
My latest CD mini-review for the WRTI E-newsletter. You can read all my CD reviews here. Paul Moravec, Tempest Fantasy Tempest Fantasy, Mood Swings, B.A.S.S. Variations, Scherzo Trio Solisti, David Krakauer, clarinet Naxos 8.559323 Moravec hits on all cylinders:...
by Kile Smith | Oct 22, 2008 | Fleisher Collection, Music Composition
At the Fleisher Collection I’m on an orchestra listserv and the ophicleide came up for discussion. (This is what happens on orchestra listservs.) Anyway, it’s a brass instrument in the bass/baritone range that has been displaced by the tuba, and I was arguing for its...
by Kile Smith | Oct 16, 2008 | CDs, Choral music, liturgical music, Lutheran, Music Composition, New Compositions, new music
Michael Lawrence has posted some nice words, some awfully nice words, about Vespers at The New Liturgical Movement. It meant a lot to me when, referring to my setting of “Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern,” he said, “This is a tune that had gone sour for me—until I...
by Kile Smith | Oct 9, 2008 | Classical music, Music Composition, New Compositions, new music
Donald Nally and The Crossing have wanted to work with the poetry of Paul Celan, and I’m delighted that they’ve commissioned me for one of the works for The Celan Project, their year-long series of concerts this 2008–2009 season. I’ve made the acquaintance of...
by Kile Smith | Oct 1, 2008 | CDs, Classical music
My latest CD mini-review for the WRTI E-newsletter… Johannes Brahms, A German Requiem Berlin Philharmonic, Berlin Radio Chorus, Simon Rattle, Dorothea Röschmann, Thomas Quasthoff EMI Classics 65393 It starts in regions below your feet where basses and cellos and...
