by Kile Smith | Jul 20, 2011 | CDs, Pop Music, String Quartet
My colleague AJay McLaughlin is the co-songwriter, along with Richard Bush, for most of the tunes of the Philadelphia rock band The Peace Creeps. On their new album Time Machine is the song “Cold,” for which they wanted to have a string quartet...
by Kile Smith | Jul 14, 2011 | CD Reviews, Choral music, new music
Quebec’s François Couture’s Listening Diary, in French and English, “IS NOT a collection of thought-out reviews. It’s a set of on-the-spot reactions.” He listens to tons, and likes The Crossing’s latest CD It is Time: The Crossing...
by Kile Smith | Jul 11, 2011 | Choral music, new music
Seven members of Tempesta di Mare Baroque Orchestra accompanied The Crossing under Nally’s direction in a work that begins rhythmically energetically and harmonically astringently but that little by little over the course of its six movements leaves its dissonances...
by Kile Smith | Jul 6, 2011 | Choral music, new music
Tom Purdom’s review is here. He likes The Waking Sun a lot, although he thinks that my handling of Seneca doesn’t reflect as integrated a worldview as my recent works on Christian themes (Exsultet, Vespers, and Two Laudate Psalms). But it is inventive and...
by Kile Smith | Jul 3, 2011 | CD Reviews, CDs, Classical music, My CD Reviews, WRTI
My latest CD mini-review for WRTI, including podcast. You can read all my CD reviews here. Grande Messe de Saint Hubert. Hermann Baumann Hunting music for natural horns, valve horns, organ Hermann Baumann, horn soloist and conductor Folkwang Horn Ensemble, Deutsche...
