by Kile Smith | Jan 9, 2016 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
New is the word of the day on Now Is the Time, Saturday, January 9th at 9 pm. David Ludwig set The New Colossus, the famous words by Emma Lazarus on the Statue of Liberty, after 9/11, and its timeless message always resonates. From David Starobin’s New Music with...
by Kile Smith | Apr 3, 2015 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Two Philadelphia composers explore sacred themes on Now Is the Time, Saturday, April 4th at 9 pm. Holy the Firm is the song cycle by James Primosch on texts by Denise Levertov, Annie Dillard, Susan Stewart, and the 7th-century John Climacus, whose monastic treatise...
by Kile Smith | Aug 25, 2013 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
You might call these fantastic lullabies on Now Is the Time, Sunday, August 25th at 10 pm. The birth of a friend’s daughter inspired Rick Sowash’s Lullabye for Kara for cello and piano. Steven Gerber’s Violin Concerto is a rocking to sleep, of sorts,...
by Kile Smith | Oct 16, 2012 | American music, Art songs, new music, Vocal music
What a program Sunday afternoon! Lyric Fest’s “Old City—New Song II” at The Academy of Vocal Arts was a straight-up no-foolin’ art song recital, a heliotrope bouquet of tunes brand-new, kind of new, and new. They were all 20th- and 21st-century...
by Kile Smith | Mar 11, 2012 | CDs, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Coming up Sunday, 10–11 pm: Ceremonies Jeremy Haladyna. Puc zikal Peten (Hearts of Yucatán) Paul Chihara. Ceremony I James Primosch. Songs and Dances from The Tempest Jeremy Haladyna. Escalation from Demon Zero Now is the Time, American contemporary music, Sundays at...
