by Kile Smith | Mar 12, 2013 | Chamber Music, Early Music, new music
Michael Caruso reviews the Orchestra 2001/Piffaro concert in which Red-tail and Hummingbird was played twice, adding a beautiful word about Vespers. The two most interesting portions of the program came on either side of its intermission. Prior to the interval,...
by Kile Smith | Jan 23, 2012 | Chamber Music, Dance Music, New Compositions, new music
Referring to Vespers and saying that I have made a name from “composing new music for older instruments,” Michael Caruso in the Chestnut Hill Local calls The Nobility of Women “concisely pointed character sketches of baroque dances.” I...
by Kile Smith | Jan 13, 2012 | Choral music, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music, Spirituality
In “Masterpiece brings packed house Sunday to Hill church,” Michael Caruso called the 2008 premiere of Vespers “a masterpiece of composition within the context of religious devotion,” singling out as “most impressive” my...
