by Kile Smith | Mar 7, 2018 | Broad Street Review, Chamber Music, Fleisher Collection, new music
Adieu, Adieu. An imaginary song. 2018, fl, cl, ehn, bn, va, db, vib, pno, 10′. Commissioned and premiered by Relâche in their 40th anniversary season, in memory of Romulus Franceschini A tune came to me one morning as I walked down the hallway, about to turn the...
by Kile Smith | Feb 6, 2013 | Chamber Music, Early Music, New Compositions, new music
[First published 5 Feb 2013 in the Broad Street Review and reprinted with permission. Read Part 1 here.] I had created the title; the only thing left was the music. In describing the composing of Red-tail and Hummingbird, I’m tempted to warn, at every step, that I...
by Kile Smith | Mar 5, 2012 | CD Reviews, CDs, Classical music, Dance Music, My CD Reviews, new music, Radio, WRTI
My latest CD mini-review for WRTI, including podcast. You can read all my CD reviews here. Soliloquy: Music of Mark Hagerty Mark Hagerty’s music is smart and sneaky. Let’s start with sneaky. He doesn’t show off: his music is so nicely grounded that...
by Kile Smith | Apr 2, 2011 | CD Reviews, CDs, My CD Reviews, new music
My latest CD mini-review for the WRTI E-newsletter. You can read all my CD reviews here. Relache: Press Play Music of Mark Hagerty, Guy Klucevsek, Cynthia Folio Meyer Media Relache has been slipping the thin leading edge of new music into Philadelphia since 1979....
by Kile Smith | Jan 2, 2008 | American music, Chamber Music, new music
Air and Jig for english horn and viola was written in 2007 in memory of Anthony Simmons, at the request of his widow Marka Kasker-Simmons. It was premiered by Kathleen Foster, viola (New Jersey Symphony), and Lloyd Shorter, english horn (Co-Artistic Director,...
