by Kile Smith | Feb 20, 2010 | CD Reviews
Another Top Ten list does Vespers make, and the most catholic of them all (small c); in there with David Lang and Lady Gaga. Dave Allen, in his blog. Don’t say he didn’t warn you about the other C. And, oh my, the R: A Philly-centric recording and the most capital-C...
by Kile Smith | Feb 15, 2010 | Classical music, Music Criticism
Catching up to Thousand Oaks, California, where their library chose The Soloist for last year’s One City, One Book celebration. Here’s a page where they list the descriptions I wrote up for the 46 musical works Steve Lopez mentions in the book, when the Free Library...
by Kile Smith | Feb 13, 2010 | CD Reviews, My CD Reviews, Radio, WRTI
WRTI asked us once again to come up with Valentine’s Day recordings—something for romance—and this offering occurred to me. And once again I chose something another announcer did. Last year I doubled up on Bob Perkins with my Johnny Hartman choice, and this time...
by Kile Smith | Feb 7, 2010 | CD Reviews, Choral music, church music, Spirituality
A very thoughtful essay by Thomas Lloyd appears in the February 2010 Choral Journal. It casts an eye on David Lang’s Pulitzer-winning the little match girl passion, Phil Kline’s John the Revelator, and my Vespers. Here’s a bit of it: These three premiere recordings of...
by Kile Smith | Feb 4, 2010 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, 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 (now eight years...
