by Kile Smith | May 22, 2009 | Choral music, new music
Joe Barron of the Montgomery News wrote a preview of The Crossing’s Month of Moderns concerts, and passed on a bit of news to me: that Kirsten Broberg and I both chose some of the same Paul Celan text to set. My work, Where flames a word, uses three texts, the last...
by Kile Smith | May 20, 2009 | CDs, Lutheran, New Compositions, new music
In March the record company sent me questions, the answers to which would be included in a press packet going out with the release of the Vespers CD. I haven’t seen the packet, but here are Navona’s questions and my answers, with my thoughts almost three months later....
by Kile Smith | May 20, 2009 | CDs
Since the CD of Vespers is now available I’m not keeping track of all the hits of the video excerpts from the premiere and am officially removing it from the sidebar (okay, last time I peeked there were over 26,000 hits… let’s see, if my math’s right, if everyone of...
by Kile Smith | May 19, 2009 | CDs
Amazon now has audio samples up for each of the Vespers tracks. The CD has also been bouncing up and down the sales rank (#45,000 to 15K to 26K to 10K, who knows what these numbers mean), but tending higher and higher. A buddy told me he saw it as high as...
by Kile Smith | May 17, 2009 | Music Composition, Radio
Donald Nally was on the radio Friday, May 15th, on Marty Moss-Coane’s Radio Times on WHYY, talking about The Crossing’s Month of Moderns series. That project includes settings of Paul Celan texts by me and others. Here’s the podcast; Donald’s on Hour 2 and Vespers...
