by Kile Smith | Apr 30, 2012 | Baroque music, Choral music, church music, Classical music
Thomas Lloyd agrees and disagrees a bit with me in the Letters section of the Broad Street Review. We corresponded quite a bit on this, after my article (itself a response) on Bach, the St. John Passion, and the charge of anti-Semitism. Our emails drifted into the...
by Kile Smith | Apr 28, 2012 | CDs, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
This Sunday, Apr 29, 10–11 pm. Steven Burke. Nervosa. Dave Brubeck. Strange Meadow Lark. Dave Brubeck. It’s a Raggy Waltz. Philip Koplow. Variations on a Hymn Tune. Patrick Beckman. Stomp. Denman Maroney. I’m Yours. Kile Smith. American Spirituals, Book 1. Eric...
by Kile Smith | Apr 27, 2012 | Choral music, church music, liturgical music, new music
How hard could it be to write a unison choral piece? How about a piece for unrehearsed singers—not a choir— who get only one shot at it? Well, that’s much of church music, the congregational singing part of it, anyway. I’ve written many hymns for just this...
by Kile Smith | Apr 27, 2012 | Choral music, Classical music, new music
Looking forward to this Sunday, 29 Apr, 4pm, for the Mendelssohn Club concert (in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Girlchoir) featuring Andrea Clearfield’s fascinating new work Tse Go La. I’m moderating a panel discussion beforehand, 1:30 at fye, Broad...
by Kile Smith | Apr 25, 2012 | Broad Street Review, Lutheran
[First published in the Broad Street Review 24 April 2012 and reprinted here with permission.]I’m glad that Steve Cohen has a hard time believing Bach to be anti-Semitic (See “Bach, King Frederick and the Jews”). It’s hard to believe because...
