by Kile Smith | May 23, 2015 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s all spontaneous fun this weekend on Now Is the Time, Saturday, May 23rd at 9 pm. Paavo Järvi conducts a substantial orchestral work by Charles Coleman, Streetscape, then Patrick Beckman plays his own Funky, from his all-piano CD Street Dance. On the CD...
by Kile Smith | Jun 13, 2014 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Miniatures are big on Now Is the Time, Saturday, June 14th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. The Pastiche of John Biggs is a riot of tunes you already know, skillfully arranged, while Miniatures are original offerings from Louis Anthony deLise’s brand-new CD for...
by Kile Smith | Sep 27, 2013 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
We move beyond autumnal blues, should we have them, on Now Is the Time, Sunday, September 29th at 10 pm. Saxophone, clarinet, and piano turn up the heat in Robert Aldridge’s Sound Moves Blues, while Patrick Beckman honors blues tradition on the piano in...
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...
by Kile Smith | Apr 28, 2012 | CDs, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
This Sunday, Apr 29, 10–11 pm. Steven Burke. Nervosa. Dave Brubeck. Strange Meadow Lark. Dave Brubeck. It’s a Raggy Waltz. Philip Koplow. Variations on a Hymn Tune. Patrick Beckman. Stomp. Denman Maroney. I’m Yours. Kile Smith. American Spirituals, Book 1. Eric...