by Kile Smith | Dec 30, 2019 | CDs, Choral music, Radio
The Arc in the Sky is receiving more and more airplay from around the country and even internationally! At the end of the year, these are the stations we know about so far. A big Thank-You from me, The Crossing, and Navona Records to the hosts, program directors, and...
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...
by Kile Smith | Jan 28, 2010 | CDs, New Compositions
The last part of my interview with Navona, the record company behind Vespers, from last year’s release of our CD. Part 1 of the interview is here, Part 2 is here, and Part 3 is here. Additional comments as I ponder my answers now, a year after the interview, are in...
by Kile Smith | Nov 20, 2009 | CD Reviews
We’ve made it into Fanfare twice: first in Peter Burwasser’s 2009 Want List, and then Carson Cooman writes it up in the regular reviews: Smith’s Vespers (2008) is a magnificent achievement: it draws on the contrapuntal and textural idioms of Renaissance and Baroque...
by Kile Smith | Jul 16, 2009 | CDs, Choral music, Music Composition, New Compositions, WRTI
With now a keen interest in the state of the recording industry, I was happy to read Joseph Dalton’s optimistic view of it in the current NewMusicBox. Many independent labels are staying the course and some are even increasing their output of CDs. New startups appear...
