by Kile Smith | Dec 13, 2014 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s John Adams’s Nativity oratorio El Niño on Now Is the Time, Saturday, December 13th at 9 pm. We’ll fit in as much as we can, since the concert-length work is too long for our one-hour show. Adams says that the birth of his daughter in 1984 was...
by Kile Smith | Jul 18, 2014 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Islands and dances and flutes seem to float on Now Is the Time, Saturday, July 19th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Haiku of Basho inspire Edie Hill’s This Floating World for solo flute; Elena Ruehr’s The Law of Floating Objects is for one...
by Kile Smith | Oct 5, 2013 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
There’s the unlikeliest motion on Now Is the Time, Sunday, October 6th at 10 pm. Kristjan Järvi conducts a live, rip-snortin’ Roadrunner, a movement from the Chamber Symphony of John Adams. Singer-songwriter Gillian Welch’s dark-edged Americana is on...
by Kile Smith | Jan 17, 2011 | CDs, Music Composition, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
The adventurous pianist Bruce Brubaker writes about the effect of notation on the performer’s comprehension in his erudite blog PianoMorphosis. Specifically, in his post “Line break,” he looks at where publishers choose to end the staves, and whether...
by Kile Smith | Mar 1, 2010 | CD Reviews, My CD Reviews, new music, String Quartet
My latest CD mini-review for the WRTI E-newsletter. You can read all my CD reviews here. Kronos Quartet: 25 Years various composers Nonesuch It’s been twelve years since this was released, but as we pull further away from the 20th century, we may consider just what...