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I now have two shows on WRTI in Philadelphia:

Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection

First Saturday of the month, 5–6 pm

Now is the Time

American contemporary music, every Sunday night 10–11 pm

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Vespers reviews
Gramophone Magazine

“a spectacular work…
quiet yet ecstatic… hushed awe ﬂoats in every movement… sparkling beauty… tender love for the texts… The Crossing shines in shimmering timbre… [Piffaro’s] members play with sensitivity and grace… profoundly contemporary view of an ancient practice…
a success”
—Andrew Druckenbrod, July 2009
Audiophile Audition

“I’ll say it outright:
this work is a masterpiece of the deepest kind…
Seldom do I come across a piece with such profoundly direct emotional appeal…
easily one of the best releases of the year…
The writing is brilliant in all respects… ★★★★★…
it would be a crime to pass it up”
—Steven Ritter
The Buffalo News

“altogether gorgeous and haunting…
we now have a piece of contemporary music that, in its very different way, deserves to be mentioned along with Rachmaninoff’s ‘Vespers’… ★★★★…
stunning”
—Jeff Simon
Philadelphia Inquirer

“creative breakthrough…
ethereal… confident simplicity… immediately identiﬁable personality… full of distinctive rewards… Vespers is a sanctuary…
the Magnificat contains a minor miracle”
—David Patrick Stearns
Philadelphia City Paper

“almost preternaturally beautiful…
how seamless…how utterly self-effacing is Smith’s technique… The music seeps into the consciousness with gentle stealth and power, ﬁnally disarming any resistance… The sum of the parts is magical…
Don’t miss this one.”
—Peter Burwasser
Allmusic

"thinking out of the centuries-old box…
novel combinations of texture… appealing… colorful… performance is of front-rank caliber… ★★★★"—Dave Lewis
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Where flames a word, reviews

“an important world premiere… feels completely right in spellbinding ways I never imagined”—Philadelphia Inquirer

“The program’s main event was another premiere by Kile Smith… Smith treated the unaccompanied voices just as unpredictably—and effectively—as he treated Renaissance instruments in the Vespers…. He’s composed a number of good pieces over the years, but lately he seems to be on a roll.”—Broad Street Review

“a sense of immanence and of tremendous, overwhelming size… really impressive: a strong sense of lapping waves, of drawing closer to that nagging, inscrutable secret that seems to haunt Celan”—Hotbed of Intrigue
Recent works
American Spirituals, Book One
American Spirituals, Book Two
The Best of All Possible Worlds
The Bremen Town Musicians
Exsultet
Vespers
Where ﬂames a word
Recent posts
- Vespers interview 3
- Anton Rubinstein
- Charles Ives, Maurice Wright
- Where flames a word, Broad Street Review
- Vespers CD, City Paper
- Where flames a word, Hotbed of Intrigue
- Vespers CD, Gramophone
- Where flames a word, Philadelphia Inquirer
- Vespers CD, Audiophile Audition
- Where flames a word
- Josef Holbrooke, Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Vespers interview 2
- Places to buy Vespers, update
- Vespers CD, more reviews
- Vespers CD, Philadelphia Inquirer
The Soloist

I briefly describe the 46 musical works Steve Lopez mentions in his book, and include music video examples.
WRTI: Now is the Time
July 12 2009
Sunday nights at 10
For the complete schedule look here.
WRTI: Fleisher Discoveries

Our seventh year on the radio with Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection—the ﬁrst Saturday of the month we uncover (and/or rediscover) treasures from the largest lending library of orchestral performance material in the world. No kidding.
on CD

American Spirituals, Book One

American Spirituals, Book Two

Four French Carols (brass quintet)

Penmaen Pool

A Song of Sonia Sanchez

Vespers
Places I go
- About Last Night
- American Composers Forum
- American Music Center
- ASCAP
- Auricolae
- Broad Street Review
- ChoralNet
- Chorus America
- Church Music Association of America
- Crossing Choir
- Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection
- Fleisher Collection
- Fragmented Obsessions
- Hemidemisemiquaver
- Hotbed of Intrigue
- Musical Fund Society
- Navona Records
- New Music Box
- Parallax
- Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
- PostClassic
- Priscilla Smith
- Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music
- Sandow
- Sibelius
- The Rest is Noise
- think denk
- WRTI 90.1 FM, Philadelphia
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