by Kile Smith | Jun 10, 2013 | American music, Baroque music, Chamber Music, Classical music
Elena Smith, finishing 12th grade and entering Temple University in the fall as a student of Jeffrey Solow, gave a recital May 31st to celebrate her graduation. She is home-schooled, so this served in lieu of a cap-and-gown graduation ceremony. Holy Trinity Lutheran...
by Kile Smith | Feb 25, 2013 | American music, Chamber Music, new music
As if Sunday’s successes of Red-tail and Hummingbird weren’t enough, a drive from Swarthmore’s concert to Abington took me to the loveliest of Lenten recitals given at Holy Trinity Lutheran, to American Spirituals, Book One played by violinist James...
by Kile Smith | Mar 1, 2009 | CDs, Composition, new music, Radio, WRTI
Walked into WRTI on Saturday to tape a few more Now is the Time shows, and Mark Pinto was there holding down the fort, cataloging CDs during the Rigoletto broadcast and preparing for his post-opera airtime. “Hey, I’ve programmed your cello spirituals on New Releases,”...
by Kile Smith | Jan 29, 2009 | CDs, Music Composition, New Compositions
Last month Anne Martindale Williams, Paul Jones, and I got together to rehearse the American Spirituals, Book Two for the upcoming CD. They rehearsed, that is. I hovered and said those things composers say at those times when musicians rehearse and composers hover....
by Kile Smith | Sep 14, 2008 | CDs, Chamber Music, Classical music, Music Composition, New Compositions, new music
American Spirituals, Book Two. 2008; cello, piano; 11′. Written for and recorded by Anne Martindale Williams, CD and score published by Paul Jones Music in the collection Sacred Music for Cello. 1. Jesus, Master, O discover 2. When the stars begin to fall 3. Little...
