by Kile Smith | Dec 23, 2011 | New Compositions, Now is the Time
The website passed 50,000 hits a few weeks ago. Researching the significance of 50,000, I discover from Wikipedia that it is the number between 49,999 and 50,001. Deciding to end my fact-finding there, I’ll report, then, that it seems like a lot, all things...
by Kile Smith | Dec 21, 2011 | Chamber Music, Dance Music, new music
Mélomanie rehearsed my new dance suite, The Nobility of Women, Monday night for the first time. More of a read-through, it gave us a chance to get to know the eight dances, lock some tempos in, and identify possible issues. The 20-minute work takes its name from the...
by Kile Smith | Dec 16, 2011 | Radio, WRTI
My impromptu interview with Yannick Nézet-Séguin from last month is available here on the WRTI site. And hey, here’s another photo, taken through the broadcast studio window (you can make out some reflection). To my left, Cecil B. Moore Avenue. Behind Yannick is...
by Kile Smith | Dec 15, 2011 | Fleisher Collection
First published in the Broad Street Review, 14 August 2011, and slightly edited since. “No tights,” I said. I would dress up as an Elizabethan king, but I was not going to wear tights at the re-opening of Shakespeare Park. It’s the bit of land across...
by Kile Smith | Dec 13, 2011 | CD Reviews, CDs, Classical music, My CD Reviews, Radio, WRTI
My latest CD mini-review for WRTI, including podcast. You can read all my CD reviews here. Musik Ekklesia: The Vanishing Nordic Chorale It’s well past time to listen to historical instruments because they’re, well, historical. Or “informed,”...
