by Kile Smith | Jul 31, 2015 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, August 1st, 5-6 pm. Randall Thompson (1899–1984). Symphony No. 1, movements 1, 3 (1930) Thompson. Symphony No. 2 (1931) Alleluia is by far Randall Thompson’s best-known work; he is known overwhelmingly for...
by Kile Smith | Jul 11, 2015 | American music, Choral music, WRTI
[First published in WRTI’s Arts Desk…] In this week in July of 1940, one of the most-loved and most-sung choral works, written by a composer living in Philadelphia, was premiered in western Massachusetts. I look at how Randall Thompson’s Alleluia is almost...
by Kile Smith | Jun 8, 2013 | CD Reviews, Classical music, Radio, WRTI
The last of six brief descriptions of music I’ve written up for WRTI’s 60th Anniversary Classical Collection of listener favorites. Here is a fuller description of the project, under the first post, the Ave Maria of Franz Biebl. Randall Thompson: Alleluia....
by Kile Smith | Oct 28, 2010 | Classical music, Music Criticism, Pop Music
The Author Events director at the Free Library of Philadelphia asked me if I would introduce Alex Ross, who was coming here on Tuesday night, October 26th, to talk about his newest book, Listen to This. I was happy to accept, since I enjoyed introducing Ross and John...
