by Kile Smith | Jun 30, 2012 | CDs, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Dreams weave in and out on Now is the Time, Sunday, July 1st at 10 pm. It’s American contemporary music on WRTI-HD2 and the all-classical stream at wrti.org. PROGRAM: Anthony Gatto. Lucky Dreams Peter Lieberson. Drala Sanghee Lee. Scented Dream from Two Short...
by Kile Smith | Jun 28, 2012 | Broad Street Review, Composition
[First published in the Broad Street Review 26 Jun 2012, as “What I learned from whale watching.” Reprinted by permission.] Looking for whales for the first time, what you notice is that everything looks like a whale. I grew up in South Jersey and went to...
by Kile Smith | Jun 23, 2012 | CDs, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Exotic sounds are broken, chanted, and spun on Now is the Time.
Philadelphia-area composers Michael Hersch and Aaron Jay Kernis always intrigue, Pat Muchmore scalds with post-modern electric guitar, and Michael Ellison infuses Qu’ranic recitation with spectral...
by Kile Smith | Jun 21, 2012 | Choral music, church music, liturgical music, new music
Parts of my Mass for Philadelphia will be sung at the Closing Eucharist for the Association of Anglican Musicians National Conference today, 3:30 pm Thursday, 21 Jun 2012, at St. Luke and The Epiphany, Philadelphia. Assisting in the congregational singing will be a...
by Kile Smith | Jun 14, 2012 | CDs, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Strings will be plucked in all sorts of music on Sunday, June 17th at 10 pm. Now is the Time, American contemporary music, on WRTI-HD2 and the all-classical stream at wrti.org. Peter Child. Fantasia Dinos Constantinides. Landscape VI—Rhapsody for Harp and Strings...
