by Kile Smith | Sep 27, 2011 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
Saturday, October 1st, 2011, 5:00-6:00 p.m. Aleksandr Scriabin (1872–1915). Piano Concerto, Op. 20 (1896). Roland Pöntingen, Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam. Bis 475. Tr 1-3. 24:15 Scriabin. The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54 (1905–8). Atlanta Symphony...
by Kile Smith | Sep 25, 2011 | Pop Music
[This article republished with permission from the Broad Street Review.] Grady Tate, the renowned jazz drummer, probably had no idea what to expect from the recording gig when he set up his drums. The song looked like nothing on the page. The title alone would be...
by Kile Smith | Sep 14, 2011 | Broad Street Review, Choral music, Classical music
[First published in the Broad Street Review as “Sports and music: a common link” 13 September 2011. Reprinted by permission.] Regulation was over, and the entire game came down to a penalty kick shoot-out. If I stopped this last one, we’d win. If I...
by Kile Smith | Sep 5, 2011 | Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011, will be my last day at the Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music, after 30 years, the last 18 as Curator. When I started as a part-time copyist in 1981, working on Louis Gruenberg’s music (pen and ink on vellum), I was getting my...
by Kile Smith | Sep 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. John Williams: Greatest Hits 1969-1999 A lone violin plays a simple, haunting melody, and you think of the people: the many taken away, the few saved, and the one who saved the...
