by Kile Smith | Dec 9, 2016 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Music of memories sleeping and waking inhabit Now Is the Time on WRTI this Saturday, December 10th at 9 pm. A sparkling duo for violin and piano is A Dream of Waking by Dan Becker, and Elizabeth Brown walks us through the mnemonic device of remembrance in The Memory...
by Kile Smith | Sep 25, 2015 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
We look up and out on Now Is the Time, Saturday, September 26th at 9 pm. In Philadelphia there’s no escaping the influence of the pope’s visit this weekend, so there’s a sacred tinge to this Saturday’s program. Curt Cacioppo gives the solo piano a workout, negotiating...
by Kile Smith | Apr 3, 2015 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Two Philadelphia composers explore sacred themes on Now Is the Time, Saturday, April 4th at 9 pm. Holy the Firm is the song cycle by James Primosch on texts by Denise Levertov, Annie Dillard, Susan Stewart, and the 7th-century John Climacus, whose monastic treatise...
by Kile Smith | Jan 17, 2014 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
We reflect on a legacy of greatness on Now Is the Time, Saturday, January 18th at 9 pm Eastern on the all-classical stream at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Yehudi Menuhin said this: “I look to music to bind and heal. I think the musician can be a trusted object,...
by Kile Smith | Aug 10, 2013 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Stark contrasts play against each other on Now Is the Time, Sunday, August 11th at 10 pm. Zeitgeist performs In Bone-Colored Light, Jerome Kitzke’s illumination of a late afternoon in an American landscape. Gabriela Lena Frank opens up the Indian and Spanish...
