by Kile Smith | Jan 29, 2009 | CDs, Music Composition, New Compositions
Last month Anne Martindale Williams, Paul Jones, and I got together to rehearse the American Spirituals, Book Two for the upcoming CD. They rehearsed, that is. I hovered and said those things composers say at those times when musicians rehearse and composers hover....
by Kile Smith | Jan 19, 2009 | Choral music, church music, Composition, liturgical music, Lutheran, Music Composition, New Compositions
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Abington crops up in the calendar here and previous years a good bit and that’s because it’s my church, Jackie is the Director of Music, and I volunteer, or am sometimes requested by same Director, to produce music for various services....
by Kile Smith | Jan 16, 2009 | CDs, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
The January WRTI e-newsletter includes a potpourri of activities I’ve had a hand in: a synopsis of the latest Fleisher Discoveries show, of course, but also our first-ever podcast. And there’s a report on an activity I had maybe just a fingernail in: last month WRTI won...
by Kile Smith | Jan 6, 2009 | Classical music, Music Criticism
The One Book, One Philadelphia selection for 2009 is The Soloist by Steve Lopez, which has also been made into a movie starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. The Free Library asked me if I’d like to write something short—a few sentences—about each of the musical...
