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 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...
by Kile Smith | Nov 28, 2010 | Chamber Music, new music
The string trio Ensemble Epomeo recently finished up a tour through New England, Canada, Philadelphia, and Princeton, playing Bach, Beethoven, Hans Gál, Alfred Schnittke, Richard Strauss, and my Thrice Blest. I was able to catch them at the University of Pennsylvania...
