by Kile Smith | Jun 30, 2009 | CD Reviews, CDs, My CD Reviews, WRTI
My latest CD mini-review for the WRTI E-newsletter. You can read all my CD reviews here. Charles Ives / Maurice Wright / Marc-André Hamelin Charles Ives Sonata No. 2 “Concord, Mass. 1840-1860”; Maurice Wright Sonata New World Records 378-2 The “Concord” Sonata is the...
by Kile Smith | Jun 24, 2009 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music
Class act Tom Purdom, Broad Street Review, 24 Jun 2009 Donald Nally’s choir, The Crossing, occupies a unique niche in the musical ecosystem: Its singers perform new and unfamiliar music for a small chamber choir. I heard them for the first time last season, when they...
by Kile Smith | Jun 21, 2009 | CD Reviews, CDs, Music Criticism
New Made Old Vespers is almost preternaturally beautiful Peter Burwasser, Philadelphia City Paper, 2 Jun 2009 This Vespers is almost preternaturally beautiful, presented with an apparent simplicity that reveals the timeless essence of musical expression. But it is not...
by Kile Smith | Jun 16, 2009 | Choral music, Music Criticism, new music
Dave Allen, Hotbed of Intrigue, 10 Jun 2009 Kile Smith’s Where flames a word, the final world premiere in the Celan Project, and the first to incorporate a prose work by Celan. Gives a sense of immanence and of tremendous, overwhelming size and the struggle to...
by Kile Smith | Jun 10, 2009 | CD Reviews, CDs, Choral music, Lutheran, New Compositions
Ancient practice through modern eyes and ears—the result is a success Andrew Druckenbrod, July 2009 The trend of writing new music for period instruments has passed through predictable stages of gimmickry and pseudo-Hegelian synthesis to finally be, simply, “music”....
