by Kile Smith | Apr 26, 2017 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
All varieties of vernacular show up this week on Now Is the Time, Saturday, April 29th at 9 pm on WRTI.org and WRTI-HD2. With movements like Sip ’N Stir (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Ramada Inn (Exit 1, New Jersey Turnpike), it sure sounds like Michael Daugherty, and those...
by Kile Smith | Aug 19, 2016 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s blue and it’s the blues on Now Is the Time, Saturday, August 20th at 9 pm, We pick a Blueberry Rag-A-Muffin to begin the program, one of Linda Robbins Coleman’s many delightful piano rags, and then turn to the second movement of David Amram’s Violin Concerto,...
by Kile Smith | Jun 2, 2011 | Choral music, new music
Donald Nally is interviewed here in the Philadelphia Inquirer (“Taking chorus in unheard-of directions”) about The Crossing’s Month of Moderns. It starts this Sunday, June 5th, continues on Saturday June 18th, where my piece The Waking Sun will...
by Kile Smith | Feb 2, 2011 | Choral music, new music
In the Sunday 30 Jan 2011 Philadelphia Inquirer, David Patrick Stearns and Peter Dobrin highlight Philadelphia-area performances coming up in the next half-year. Mentioned is the Seneca Sounds project in The Crossing’s Month of Moderns, in particular the 18 June...
by Kile Smith | Jul 10, 2010 | CDs, Choral music, new music
The Crossing’s premiere of Where Flames a Word last year received such great feedback that they’re singing it again this Saturday. My setting of Paul Celan texts will be on their Month of Moderns (MOM III) season finale, Saturday July 17th, 2010. It’s at the...
