by Kile Smith | Apr 13, 2017 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Life awaits its birth this Saturday before Easter on Now Is the Time, Saturday, April 15th at 9 pm on WRTI.org and WRTI-HD2. Evan Chambers walks through a graveyard and is inspired by inscriptions and poetry in the Introduction to The Old Burying Ground and its last...
by Kile Smith | Jan 14, 2017 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s heavy metal on Now Is the Time, Saturday, January 14th at 9 pm on WRTI.org and WRTI-HD2. Techno DJ Steve Bowman starts us off with Pinches of piano and electronica. That’s followed by David Dzubay’s Brass Quintet No. 1 from way, way back in 1988. The Prism...
by Kile Smith | Oct 5, 2015 | Jazz, WRTI, WRTI Arts Desk
[First published in WRTI’s Arts Desk 5 Oct 2015] Two Englishmen, Guy Wood and Robert Mellin, slipped it into the Great American Songbook just before it closed, just as rock rolled over sophistication. It begins from below, a slowly twisting Roman candle of a tune, and...
by Kile Smith | Sep 2, 2012 | CDs, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s one piano, two pianos, jazz, and rags on Now is the Time, Sunday, September 2nd at 10 pm. David Baker pays tribute to musician Coltrane and writer Dunbar, while Kevin Beavers has fun, and Judith Lang Zaimont gets snazzy on two pieces from her Prestidigitations...
by Kile Smith | May 29, 2011 | new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
For the Memorial Day Weekend, Sunday May 29th, it’s all solo piano music on Now is the Time. Judith Lang Zaimont’s CD of rags, Prestidigitations, yields two delights, and we dip into Nicola Melville’s recording of some of her favorite contemporary composers for the...