by Kile Smith | Mar 31, 2014 | Art songs, Vocal music
Thanks to baritone Matthew Giallongo, for singing two of my Three Italian Songs on his Master’s Recital tonight at Temple University. He has a beautiful voice and sang “Autunno” and “Morire” with a great depth of feeling. Kristen Kiekel...
by Kile Smith | Oct 16, 2012 | American music, Art songs, new music, Vocal music
What a program Sunday afternoon! Lyric Fest’s “Old City—New Song II” at The Academy of Vocal Arts was a straight-up no-foolin’ art song recital, a heliotrope bouquet of tunes brand-new, kind of new, and new. They were all 20th- and 21st-century...