by Kile Smith | Mar 31, 2009 | CDs, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, new music, Radio, WRTI
On the first Saturday of the month Jack Moore and I host Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection on WRTI 90.1 FM in Philadelphia and on the all-classical webstream at wrti.org. We also broadcast encore presentations of the entire Discoveries series (seven years and...
by Kile Smith | Mar 24, 2009 | Classical music, Music Composition, New Compositions, String Quartet
The sufferings of the world and the desperation of a hopeless love conspire to drag Candide from naïve optimism to resigned skepticism, yet, even in the face of Voltaire’s ridicule he clings to the belief that this is, in fact, the best of all possible worlds. That...
by Kile Smith | Mar 16, 2009 | CDs, liturgical music, New Compositions
Just got the word—you can get the CD here. With the recording is a 24-page booklet with texts, translations, and notes on the composition, Piffaro, The Crossing, and Donald Nally. Also, this is an enhanced CD; load it into your computer to see the full score and...
by Kile Smith | Mar 16, 2009 | Chamber Music, New Compositions, new music, Orchestral Music
A Song of Sonia Sanchez is in two versions: 1998; medium voice, violin, piano, 3 latin percussion, double or electric bass; 7′ https://kilesmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/songsoniasanchezorchexcerpt.mp3 2000; medium voice, violin, piano, 3 latin perc, double...
by Kile Smith | Mar 13, 2009 | CDs, Choral music, New Compositions
…and this is how I found out that pre-release copies of Vespers were at liberty…a carton from Navona Records showed up at the Piffaro office just as the group was leaving for Houston…Priscilla took this picture at the airport with her phone…the official release date is...
