by Kile Smith | May 17, 2013 | Dance Music, Early Music, New Compositions, new music, Orchestral Music, String Orchestra
I could hardly have been happier at the premiere of The Red Book of Montserrat last night at the Perelman Theater in the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia. This newest string orchestra work is a 20-minute suite commissioned by the Philadelphia Sinfonia, Gary White, music...
by Kile Smith | May 5, 2013 | Dance Music, Early Music, New Compositions, new music, Orchestral Music, String Orchestra
The Red Book of Montserrat is a suite for string orchestra commissioned by the Philadelphia Sinfonia, the excellent youth orchestra Gary White directs. It sets five of the ten songs from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, the 14th-century book of music and texts from...
by Kile Smith | Feb 16, 2013 | Early Music, new music, Orchestral Music, String Orchestra
I’m looking forward to the first airing tomorrow of some of The Red Book of Montserrat, a new work for string orchestra commissioned by the Philadelphia Sinfonia, Gary White, music director. It’s a “sneak preview,” as the official premiere is...
by Kile Smith | Nov 12, 2012 | Early Music, new music, Orchestral Music, String Orchestra, Uncategorized
A few days ago I hit the double bar on The Red Book of Montserrat, a new work for string orchestra. Commissioned by the Philadelphia Sinfonia, a wonderful youth orchestra in town, the complete five-movement suite will be premiered by them in the spring of 2013 at the...
by Kile Smith | Jun 30, 2010 | CDs, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
On the first Saturday of the month Jack Moore and I host Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection on WRTI 90.1 FM in Philadelphia and on the all-classical webstream at wrti.org. We also broadcast encore presentations of the entire Discoveries series (now eight years...
