by Kile Smith | Aug 1, 2017 | Broad Street Review, Composition
[First published in Broad Street Review, 1 Aug 2017] This is the part they don’t tell you when they tell you about composing. This is the part where every start to your piece is wrong, every note is wrong, every page you’re staring at is false and mocking and hateful,...
by Kile Smith | Aug 5, 2016 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Pieces of this and that country make up Now Is the Time, Saturday, August 6th at 9 pm. Two works of Mason Bates seemingly float in space, as Chanticleer sings the Maori-inspired Observer in the Magellanic Cloud, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project performs...
by Kile Smith | Dec 26, 2014 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
The sun turns and we anticipate a new year on Now Is the Time, Saturday, December 27th at 9 pm. Stephen Hartke based The King of the Sun on a Joan Miró painting, itself inspired by a much older Dutch painting by Jan Steen. Chris Campbell finds sounds and creates...
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 | Jan 24, 2014 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s music for different duos on Now Is the Time, Saturday, January 25th at 9 pm Eastern on the all-classical stream at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Charles Knox’s Suite for Piano Four-Hands is puckish and not a little bold: its six movements take four minutes...
