by Kile Smith | Sep 7, 2019 | CD Reviews, CDs, Choral music
Laurence Vittes praises The Arc in the Sky, the CD The Crossing, directed by Donald Nally, released this summer on Navona, in a thoughtful October 2019 Gramophone magazine review. My description of the work as a “65-minute pilgrimage for unaccompanied...
by Kile Smith | Aug 28, 2010 | CD Reviews, CDs, Choral music
This is the truth. I wasn’t looking around for my CD (I mean, I do that sometimes, but not this time), I was looking for an Ethel Smyth recording, really I was, on my web resource of first resort, ArkivMusic, which I’m glad I have bookmarked because I’m always...
by Kile Smith | Jun 10, 2009 | CD Reviews, CDs, Choral music, Lutheran, New Compositions
Ancient practice through modern eyes and ears—the result is a success Andrew Druckenbrod, July 2009 The trend of writing new music for period instruments has passed through predictable stages of gimmickry and pseudo-Hegelian synthesis to finally be, simply, “music”....
