by Kile Smith | May 16, 2014 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
New things are created out of old on Now Is the Time, Saturday, May 17th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. David Gompper worked with Austrian violinist Wolfgang David on a new concerto before it was a concerto. For violin and piano, the work evolved through rehearsals...
by Kile Smith | Oct 24, 2013 | new music, Orchestral Music, Spirituality
Just got the poster from John Sall, director of the Abington Symphony Orchestra, for the November 8th concert including my Symphony: Lumen ad revelationem. Also on the program is the exquisite Nänie of Brahms, coincidentally the piece that, when I was in high school,...
by Kile Smith | Jun 14, 2013 | American music, CDs, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s surprising remembrance on Now Is the Time, Sunday, June 16th at 10 pm. In her Cantata da Requiem, World War II Poems of Peace, Gloria Coates gathers unlikely texts—including a BBC 1942 weather report—into a haunting cry. Philip Blackburn remixes Robert...
by Kile Smith | Feb 5, 2013 | New Compositions, new music, Orchestral Music, Spirituality
2002; 2.2.2.2-2.2-1perc-str. 22′. Review. Score Commissioned by the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra, Donald Spieth, Music Director, and premiered by them on February 15th and 16th, 2002, at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. 1. Lumen ad revelationem 2. Passer...
by Kile Smith | Sep 7, 2012 | CDs, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
For the 11th anniversary of 9/11, listen to a work written for its 10th anniversary, on Now is the Time, Sunday, September 9th at 10 pm. The Ground Zero church, Trinity Wall Street, commissioned Robert Moran’s Trinity Requiem. We’ll hear the haunting work...