by Kile Smith | Aug 19, 2016 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s blue and it’s the blues on Now Is the Time, Saturday, August 20th at 9 pm, We pick a Blueberry Rag-A-Muffin to begin the program, one of Linda Robbins Coleman’s many delightful piano rags, and then turn to the second movement of David Amram’s Violin Concerto,...
by Kile Smith | Dec 5, 2015 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
[After a broadcast glitch last week, we’re loading this up again for this week!] Call it post-Thanksgiving thoughts on Now Is the Time, Saturday, December 12th at 9 pm. The recent feasts bring to mind A Festive Proclamation for organ by Samuel Adler which he...
by Kile Smith | Jul 25, 2014 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
New music hears old tunes on Now Is the Time, Saturday, July 26th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. George Crumb has a way—like no one else—of investing the simplest gesture with mystery and grandeur. He fills his seventh American Song Book, Voices from the Heartland,...
by Kile Smith | Mar 2, 2013 | American music, CDs, new music, Radio
We’re telling stories on Now is the Time, Sunday, March 3rd at 10 pm. Stephen Vincent Benét’s The Ballad of William Sycamore (“My father, he was a mountaineer, His fist was a knotty hammer; He was quick on his feet as a running deer, And he spoke...