by Kile Smith | May 1, 2013 | Classical music, Early Music
[First published in the Broad Street Review, 30 April 2013, under the title The great debate: Sackbut or trombone?] When all you have is a hammer, it’s said, everything starts to look like a nail. The job of constructing an answer to the early/modern instrument...
by Kile Smith | Mar 12, 2013 | Chamber Music, Early Music, new music
Michael Caruso reviews the Orchestra 2001/Piffaro concert in which Red-tail and Hummingbird was played twice, adding a beautiful word about Vespers. The two most interesting portions of the program came on either side of its intermission. Prior to the interval,...
