by Kile Smith | Apr 15, 2015 | American music
Philip Glass is charming. I thoroughly enjoyed interviewing him April 7th at the Free Library of Philadelphia as part of their Author Events, the successful series curated by Andy Kahan. Words Without Music is the just-published book by Philip Glass, who is on a short...
by Kile Smith | Mar 6, 2015 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
The spotlight is on the alto of the string section on Now Is the Time, Saturday, March 7th at 9 pm. John Harbison’s sumptuous Viola Concerto starts the program off, and then duoJalal percussionist Yousif Sheronick turns a Philip Glass solo viola work into a Duo...
by Kile Smith | Jan 30, 2015 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s ice and echoes on Now Is the Time, Saturday, January 31st at 9 pm Eastern on the all-classical stream at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Figure-skating and Stravinsky inspire Joan Tower’s gliding Petroushskates, and Allen Ginsberg narrates his own poem in...
by Kile Smith | Nov 21, 2014 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Different quartets evoke different textures on Now Is the Time, Saturday, November 22nd at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Geology dominates Paul Lansky’s Textures. It’s for two pianists and two percussionists, and movement titles use words like striations,...
by Kile Smith | Aug 8, 2014 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
They come in twos on Now Is the Time, Saturday, August 9th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Joan Tower responded to Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man with numerous Fanfares for the Uncommon Woman; we’ll hear No. 2. Eric McIntyre doubles down on...
