by Kile Smith | Nov 29, 2009 | CD Reviews
Chestnut Hill is the neighborhood in Philadelphia that saw one of the two premiere performances of Vespers, and the Chestnut Hill Local is its award-winning weekly: Chestnut Hill Local Michael Caruso, 26 Nov 2009 If you’re looking to give the gift of music with a...
by Kile Smith | Nov 20, 2009 | CD Reviews
We’ve made it into Fanfare twice: first in Peter Burwasser’s 2009 Want List, and then Carson Cooman writes it up in the regular reviews: Smith’s Vespers (2008) is a magnificent achievement: it draws on the contrapuntal and textural idioms of Renaissance and Baroque...
by Kile Smith | Nov 14, 2009 | New Compositions, Radio, WRTI
Awfully nice of WRTI to point out Vespers and Two Laudate Psalms in a notice on the bottom of their homepage. They refer to the two radio shows, and if you follow the jump, you’ll find links to things like the story behind the theme music for Now is the Time. There is...
by Kile Smith | Nov 10, 2009 | CD Reviews, Choral music, New Compositions
Nally: SMITH, K. Vespers on NAVONA Peter Burwasser, 9 Oct 2009, Issue 33:2, Nov/Dec 2009 Kile Smith: Vespers Audio CD; Enhanced Navona 5809 Kile Smith is the curator of the renowned Fleisher Collection of music in Philadelphia, and a composer of stealthy excellence....
by Kile Smith | Nov 6, 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...
