by Kile Smith | Jun 27, 2011 | CD Reviews, CDs, Choral music, new music
In Philadelphia, a choir among choirs… Bruce Hodges in Monotonous Forrest “…Meanwhile, the group has an impressive new recording out, It is Time (Navona Records NV5845), with works by David Shapiro, Kile Smith, Paul Fowler, Frank Havrøy, Erhard...
by Kile Smith | Jun 24, 2011 | CD Reviews, Classical music, Radio, WRTI
On the WRTI homepage is my first-ever podcast for them. It’s the mini-review I wrote last year of A Grand Celebration, the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Rossen Milanov, accompanying Peter Richard Conte on the Wanamaker Organ at Macy’s. You can...
by Kile Smith | Jun 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Crossing’s performance of The Waking Sun was reviewed in yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer… David Patrick Stearns calls it “a hit.” The Waking Sun, his setting of Seneca texts often divided into two or three contrapuntal strands that...
by Kile Smith | Jun 18, 2011 | CDs, Choral music, new music, Radio
The Crossing will be featured on the the June 19 edition of WQXR’s new weekly radio show, The Choral Mix with Kent Tritle. Kent selected Piffaro and The Crossing’s recording of my “Vater unser” from the Vespers CD. You can listen Sunday at 7am...
by Kile Smith | Jun 13, 2011 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music
6. While on such beauty the lover gazes While on such beauty the lover gazes, her cheeks suddenly glow with rosy blush. Snowy wool turns crimson thus when bathed in purple flood; so gleams the waking sun when the shepherd, wet with the dew of the dawn of the day,...
