by Kile Smith | Feb 8, 2016 | Classical music, WRTI Arts Desk
[First published in WRTI’s Arts Desk, 8 Feb 2016. Reprinted by permission.] The recording industry gives out its GRAMMY Awards on February 15th; WRTI’s Kile Smith looks at the classical categories. This year’s classical GRAMMYs may have more than a few...
by Kile Smith | Oct 22, 2014 | American music
It has to be 30 years ago now; I was sitting in a cafe with composers Jennifer Higdon, Rob Maggio, Sylvia Glickman, and a fellow in town from Minnesota, who was advising us on a composer organization start-up. He was already well-known in composer circles as the one...
by Kile Smith | Apr 4, 2014 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
So done with March and feeling like a new start, we’ve got all preludes on Now Is the Time, Saturday, April 5th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Stephen Paulus writes comfortably in every genre; we start the program with a short, sassy work played by pianist...
