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 | Aug 5, 2016 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Pieces of this and that country make up Now Is the Time, Saturday, August 6th at 9 pm. Two works of Mason Bates seemingly float in space, as Chanticleer sings the Maori-inspired Observer in the Magellanic Cloud, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project performs...
by Kile Smith | Aug 1, 2014 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s sound, brand-new and fantastical, on Now Is the Time, Saturday, August 2nd at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Mason Bates intersects electronica pop rhythm with indigenous percussion in Stereo Is King, while Prism by Charles Peck combines a percussion...
by Kile Smith | May 23, 2014 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s a blast from the past on Now Is the Time, Saturday, May 24th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. David Del Tredici threw over his cutting-edge training in 12-tone music for his aggressively tonal “Alice” pieces, works based on Alice in Wonderland....
by Kile Smith | Sep 22, 2012 | CDs, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s the stuff of earth and of life on Now is the Time, Sunday, September 23rd at 10 pm. A solo piano rocks, and water meets stone at a Mediterranean coast. Michael Gandolfi interprets the garden where natural geometry gives way to physics. Brooks plays with air and...
