by Kile Smith | Nov 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Singing Guitar grabs a 2022 Best Choral Performance GRAMMY nomination for Conspirare! Along with music by Nico Muhly, Reena Esmail, and Craig Hella Johnson, who created all this in love, it’s an honor for my work The Dawn’s Early Light to be included....
by Kile Smith | Jan 27, 2020 | CDs, Choral music
Texts were flying in from the Grammys in L.A. last night while we watched Nellie, on Baroque cello, at Forest and Main in Ambler, play an energetic concert with Musicivic Baroque. While The Arc in the Sky with The Crossing did not win for Best Choral Performance...
by Kile Smith | Nov 20, 2019 | CDs, Choral music
Received texts of “Congrats” this morning, which puzzled me, as I didn’t know what I was being congratulated for. But then the news started slipping out that The Crossing received two nominations for Best Choral Performance for the 2020 Grammy...
by Kile Smith | Feb 8, 2016 | Classical music, WRTI Arts Desk
[First published in WRTI’s Arts Desk, 8 Feb 2016. Reprinted by permission.] The recording industry gives out its GRAMMY Awards on February 15th; WRTI’s Kile Smith looks at the classical categories. This year’s classical GRAMMYs may have more than a few...
by Kile Smith | Feb 1, 2016 | Classical music, WRTI Arts Desk
[First published in WRTI’s Arts Desk, 1 Feb 2016. Reprinted by permission.] The recording industry gives out the GRAMMY Awards in two weeks, and WRTI’s Kile Smith looks at the classical categories, which include some local names. On February 15th the 58th Grammy...
