by Kile Smith | Sep 30, 2009 | CDs, Fleisher Collection, 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 (now eight years...
by Kile Smith | Sep 22, 2009 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music
It delighted me when Lyric Fest approached with a commission for a concert titled “World Spirituality in Song.” I like this organization. Timothy Bentch had beautifully sung one of my Gerard Manley Hopkins songs, “Spring and Fall,” on a Lyric Fest concert, and I’ve...
by Kile Smith | Sep 12, 2009 | Radio, WRTI
Picking up my car [see photo below—no, not that one, all the way at the bottom] at the shop—inspection, brakes, wheels balanced, suspension and things—and the guy says, “You take the train here from work, don’t you, from in town? That work out for you?” “Yeah, but I...
by Kile Smith | Sep 5, 2009 | CD Reviews, My CD Reviews, WRTI
My latest CD mini-review for the WRTI E-newsletter. You can read all my CD reviews here. Chant d’Automne / French Horn Music Music of Saint-Saëns, Radoux, Pessard, Jeanjean, Kunc, Guillemyn, Strong, Chabrier Ulrich Hübner, natural and valve horns, Kölner Akademie,...
