by Kile Smith | Nov 15, 2014 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Composers praise composers on Now Is the Time, Saturday, November 15th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Randall Woolf re-forms, with a string quartet, the phrasings of another century in Franz Schubert, and for Zeitgeist’s 30th Anniversary, Carol Barnett wrote...
by Kile Smith | Aug 17, 2013 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
The question—What Is American Classical Music?—comes to mind on Now Is the Time, Sunday, August 18th at 10 pm. The Symphony No. 1 of John Biggs is in the grand tradition we think of as “American,” with wide-open sounds and deep breaths from the...
by Kile Smith | Feb 8, 2013 | American music, CDs, new music, Radio
It’s as if we were all sent Valentines on Now is the Time, Sunday, February 10th at 10 pm. We’re proud of all the music by women composers our show has aired since we began in 2008, but this program we’ve set aside for them and to some pieces that...