by Kile Smith | Oct 3, 2015 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
This week’s blood-red super-moon eclipse informs Now Is the Time, Saturday, October 3rd at 9 pm. Blake Wilkins’s Compendium, from the University of Oklahoma Percussion Ensemble’s CD Twilight Offering Music, is a moodily colorful start to the program. An eerie string...
by Kile Smith | Apr 17, 2015 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Forms traditional, and those not so, arise on Now Is the Time, Saturday, April 18th at 9 pm. Composers often wrestle over titles, hoping to trumpet putative musical originality with a never-seen-before moniker. Paul Moravec, however, writes a piece for string quartet...
by Kile Smith | Oct 10, 2014 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s one voice among all on Now Is the Time, Saturday, October 11th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Two concertos—the ultimate one vs. many format—bookend a lone flute on this week’s program. Meditation and Caprice are the two movements of the engaging,...
by Kile Smith | Mar 29, 2013 | American music, CDs, new music, Radio
It’s the mystery of creation and Casals on Now is the Time, Sunday, March 31st at 10 pm. Paul Moravec visited Montserrat, home of a monastery and of a statue of Pablo Casals. The great cellist had played there and was friends with the monks who attended to the...
by Kile Smith | Oct 31, 2008 | CD Reviews, CDs, Classical music, My CD Reviews, new music
My latest CD mini-review for the WRTI E-newsletter. You can read all my CD reviews here. Paul Moravec, Tempest Fantasy Tempest Fantasy, Mood Swings, B.A.S.S. Variations, Scherzo Trio Solisti, David Krakauer, clarinet Naxos 8.559323 Moravec hits on all cylinders:...
