by Kile Smith | May 3, 2022 | Classical music, Podcast
With $500 from his father for school, the 18-year-old ran away from home, leaving Europe on a ship to the US, and ending up in Galveston, Texas. He knew six languages, but not one of them was English. Gene Gutchë (1907–2000). Symphony VI (1970) Listen on SoundCloud...
by Kile Smith | Apr 15, 2015 | American music
Philip Glass is charming. I thoroughly enjoyed interviewing him April 7th at the Free Library of Philadelphia as part of their Author Events, the successful series curated by Andy Kahan. Words Without Music is the just-published book by Philip Glass, who is on a short...
by Kile Smith | Dec 4, 2014 | Classical music
Generally not with it to begin with, I’m further without whatever it is as I bear down on composing deadlines, as I am now. So I don’t know why there’s been a sudden surge in a post from five years ago, but it’s all of a sudden getting a lot of...
by Kile Smith | Sep 3, 2014 | Fleisher Collection, WRTI
Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday September 6th at 5 pm Anatol Lyadov (1855-1914). Ballade (From Olden Times) (1889) Ernest Chausson (1855-1899). Two Dances from The Tempest (1888) Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937). Ramuntcho, Suite No. 2 (1907) Joaquín...
by Kile Smith | Jul 30, 2014 | Fleisher Collection, WRTI
Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday August 2nd at 5 pm Josef Suk (1874–1935). Serenade (1892) Vitezslav Novák (1873–1949). Slovak Suite (1903) The gentleman from Philadelphia was heir to a textile business but his passion was music. An amateur violinist...
