by Kile Smith | Oct 5, 2013 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
There’s the unlikeliest motion on Now Is the Time, Sunday, October 6th at 10 pm. Kristjan Järvi conducts a live, rip-snortin’ Roadrunner, a movement from the Chamber Symphony of John Adams. Singer-songwriter Gillian Welch’s dark-edged Americana is on...
by Kile Smith | Apr 26, 2013 | American music, CDs, new music, Radio
It’s different ways to say good night on Now Is the Time, Sunday, April 28th at 10 pm. Alex Freeman’s solo piano Night on the Prairies leads to a sextet in Jeremy Beck’s In Flight until Mysterious Night (and do we hear Steely Dan in there?). Yo-Yo...
by Kile Smith | Mar 1, 2010 | CD Reviews, My CD Reviews, new music, String Quartet
My latest CD mini-review for the WRTI E-newsletter. You can read all my CD reviews here. Kronos Quartet: 25 Years various composers Nonesuch It’s been twelve years since this was released, but as we pull further away from the 20th century, we may consider just what...
