by Kile Smith | Jan 29, 2015 | Chamber Music, Dance Music, new music, Radio
David Osenberg interviews my friends in the Baroque/new music chamber group Mélomanie tonight on WWFM’s Cadenza, Thursday at 10 pm Eastern, with a rebroadcast at 7 am Saturday January 31st. Two movements from my dance suite The Nobility of Women will air. This...
by Kile Smith | Sep 30, 2012 | Baroque music, Chamber Music, Dance Music, Early Music, new music
Had a blast at Mélomanie’s season opener last night: Telemann, Boismoitier, a Chris Braddock world premiere, and selections from recent commissions, including The Nobility of Women, which they had premiered in January. I always enjoy hearing the music of Ingrid...
by Kile Smith | Sep 28, 2012 | Baroque music, Chamber Music, Dance Music, Early Music, new music
Mélomanie’s 2012-13 season begins tomorrow night at Immanuel Church, Highlands in Wilmington with a potpourri of excerpted recent commissions. The Nobility of Women will be on the program, along with music by Ingrid Arauco, Mark Hagerty, Chuck Holdeman, and the...
by Kile Smith | May 22, 2012 | Broad Street Review, Classical music, Composition
[First published 22 May 2012 in the Broad Street Review and used here by permission.] The bank of the river is dark—darker than it seems from a distance. I pick my way down to it, and it looks like sand, chocolate sand. Under my feet it slides softly down toward the...
by Kile Smith | Jan 23, 2012 | Chamber Music, Dance Music, New Compositions, new music
Referring to Vespers and saying that I have made a name from “composing new music for older instruments,” Michael Caruso in the Chestnut Hill Local calls The Nobility of Women “concisely pointed character sketches of baroque dances.” I...
