by Kile Smith | May 1, 2015 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
We can almost see the music on Now Is the Time, Saturday, May 2nd at 9 pm. Robert Moran took snippets of words from a 30-year correspondence with John Cage and worked them into this delicious three-part work for chorus, Seven Sounds Unseen. Nicolas Scherzinger spins...
by Kile Smith | Jun 6, 2014 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Singing can be vocal or instrumental on Now Is the Time, Saturday, June 7th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. A tribute to a family, carved in cemetery marble, is the choral Notturno in Weiss (Nocturne in White) by Robert Moran. Joseph Hallman’s Three Poems of...
by Kile Smith | Jun 14, 2013 | American music, CDs, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s surprising remembrance on Now Is the Time, Sunday, June 16th at 10 pm. In her Cantata da Requiem, World War II Poems of Peace, Gloria Coates gathers unlikely texts—including a BBC 1942 weather report—into a haunting cry. Philip Blackburn remixes Robert...
by Kile Smith | Sep 7, 2012 | CDs, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
For the 11th anniversary of 9/11, listen to a work written for its 10th anniversary, on Now is the Time, Sunday, September 9th at 10 pm. The Ground Zero church, Trinity Wall Street, commissioned Robert Moran’s Trinity Requiem. We’ll hear the haunting work...
by Kile Smith | Aug 27, 2012 | CD Reviews, CDs, Classical music, My CD Reviews, new music, Radio, WRTI
My latest CD review for WRTI… https://kilesmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/201209morantrinitypodcast.mp3 Robert Moran has written music for entire cities to perform—San Francisco, Graz, Bethlehem, Pa.—with cars, airplanes, multiple orchestras, choirs, and...