by Kile Smith | Jun 10, 2009 | CD Reviews, CDs, Choral music, Lutheran, New Compositions
Ancient practice through modern eyes and ears—the result is a success Andrew Druckenbrod, July 2009 The trend of writing new music for period instruments has passed through predictable stages of gimmickry and pseudo-Hegelian synthesis to finally be, simply, “music”....
by Kile Smith | May 29, 2009 | CDs
Part 1 of the interview with Navona is here. My additional comments (now, three months after the interview) are in italics. 2. Do you draw inspiration from other musical works, art, literature, etc.? I’ve always been drawn to words, and find that setting them, or...
by Kile Smith | May 20, 2009 | CDs, Lutheran, New Compositions, new music
In March the record company sent me questions, the answers to which would be included in a press packet going out with the release of the Vespers CD. I haven’t seen the packet, but here are Navona’s questions and my answers, with my thoughts almost three months later....
