by Kile Smith | Aug 12, 2016 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
We’re looking at the sky and beyond on Now Is the Time, Saturday, August 13th at 9 pm, Dark Clouds Bring Waters is William McClelland’s setting of John Bunyan: “Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.” Elena Ruehr follows that with lovely music for...
by Kile Smith | Jul 18, 2014 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Islands and dances and flutes seem to float on Now Is the Time, Saturday, July 19th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Haiku of Basho inspire Edie Hill’s This Floating World for solo flute; Elena Ruehr’s The Law of Floating Objects is for one...
by Kile Smith | Jun 6, 2014 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Singing can be vocal or instrumental on Now Is the Time, Saturday, June 7th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. A tribute to a family, carved in cemetery marble, is the choral Notturno in Weiss (Nocturne in White) by Robert Moran. Joseph Hallman’s Three Poems of...
by Kile Smith | Dec 6, 2013 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Mischievous, menacing, or minuetting, it’s dancing on Now Is the Time, Saturday, December 7th at 9 pm—our new time, every Saturday night at 9 on WRTI-HD2 and the all-classical stream at wrti.org. From her CD How She Danced comes Elena Ruehr’s String...
by Kile Smith | Jan 5, 2013 | American music, CDs, new music, Radio, WRTI
We enter the cold new year on Now is the Time, Sunday, January 6th at 10 pm. David Snow’s A Baker’s Tale, originally with narrator but in this version for trumpeter Chris Gekker and piano, is from the CD Winter. From Elena Ruehr’s CD of string...