by Kile Smith | Nov 10, 2014 | Art songs, new music, Vocal music
Trio for soprano, tenor, baritone, with piano, 4 min. Text: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, 5, 1. Mark the Music was written as the closing piece for concerts entitled “Much Ado about Shakespeare.” Though I did lecture on Viennese lieder on...
by Kile Smith | Jan 2, 2014 | Early Music
In the Smith house we couldn’t be prouder of Priscilla, just written up in the Philadelphia Inquirer by David Patrick Stearns. He saw the Mark Rylance productions on Broadway of Richard III and Twelfth Night, in which Priscilla’s been playing since...
by Kile Smith | Dec 4, 2013 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection broadcasts Saturday, December 7th, 2013, 5-6 pm on WRTI and wrti.org. Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901). Macbeth, Prelude (1847). Orchestra of La Scala, Claudio Abbado. Deutsche Grammophon 4784936, CD 10, Tr 1. 3:17 Richard Strauss...
by Kile Smith | Oct 30, 2013 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection broadcasts Saturday, November 2nd, 2013, 5-6 pm on WRTI and wrti.org.Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968). Antony and Cleopatra Overture (1947). West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Penny. Naxos 572500, Tr 3. 17:49Edward...
by Kile Smith | Dec 15, 2011 | Fleisher Collection
First published in the Broad Street Review, 14 August 2011, and slightly edited since. “No tights,” I said. I would dress up as an Elizabethan king, but I was not going to wear tights at the re-opening of Shakespeare Park. It’s the bit of land across...
