by Kile Smith | Oct 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
[First published in WRTI’s Arts Desk 26 Oct 2015.] It’s an unlikely choice of music for this movie, but WRTI’s Kile Smith looks at how The Deer Hunter theme came into existence, and why it still haunts us almost 40 years later. The violence in this Vietnam War...
by Kile Smith | May 4, 2013 | American music, CDs, new music, Radio
Concertos for low instruments bookend a concerto for orchestra on Now Is the Time, Sunday, May 5th at 10 pm. Gunther Schuller conducts Orchestra 2001 in his Concerto da Camera, a classical-sized work with twists. Carter Brey’s singing tone dives deep into Steven...
by Kile Smith | Sep 3, 2011 | CD Reviews, CDs, Classical music, My CD Reviews, WRTI
My latest CD mini-review for WRTI, including podcast. You can read all my CD reviews here. John Williams: Greatest Hits 1969-1999 A lone violin plays a simple, haunting melody, and you think of the people: the many taken away, the few saved, and the one who saved the...
