by Kile Smith | Dec 19, 2010 | Classical music, Orchestral Music
My response to Robert Zaller, “Are Symphonies Really Dying?,” has evoked some responses of its own. Karl Middleman, conductor of the Philadelphia Classical Symphony, writes in, as does Mr. Zaller, and then me again. One bit in my letter that hit the cutting room floor...
by Kile Smith | Dec 16, 2010 | CD Reviews, CDs, Choral music, new music
The Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music has chosen Vespers for its Featured Recording of the Week. For your last-minute Christmas shopping! They excerpt some of its reviews, and throw in lots of links for the CD and downloads. Here’s the page. I still cringe,...
by Kile Smith | Dec 3, 2010 | Composition, new music, Vocal music
A mention in This Week at Pytheas: David Patrick Stearns of the Philadelphia Inquirer called Kile Smith’s Vespers “breathtaking” and “ecstatically beautiful,” adding that “few have Smith’s lyrical immediacy and ability to find...
by Kile Smith | Dec 1, 2010 | CDs, 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 nine years and...
