by Kile Smith | Jan 23, 2015 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s time for some warmth in the midst of winter on Now Is the Time, Saturday, January 24th at 9 pm. From The Crossing’s 2013 Christmas Daybreak CD is Benjamin C. S. Boyle’s Three Carols for Wintertide, holding up for our consideration a rose, holly...
by Kile Smith | Dec 20, 2013 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
We are on the cusp of winter on Now Is the Time, Saturday, December 21st at 9 pm—our new time, every Saturday night at 9 on WRTI-HD2 and the all-classical stream at wrti.org. The Philadelphia new-music choir The Crossing has just released Christmas Daybreak, from...
by Kile Smith | Oct 16, 2012 | American music, Art songs, new music, Vocal music
What a program Sunday afternoon! Lyric Fest’s “Old City—New Song II” at The Academy of Vocal Arts was a straight-up no-foolin’ art song recital, a heliotrope bouquet of tunes brand-new, kind of new, and new. They were all 20th- and 21st-century...
