by Kile Smith | Dec 4, 2014 | Classical music
Generally not with it to begin with, I’m further without whatever it is as I bear down on composing deadlines, as I am now. So I don’t know why there’s been a sudden surge in a post from five years ago, but it’s all of a sudden getting a lot of...
by Kile Smith | Feb 15, 2010 | Classical music, Music Criticism
Catching up to Thousand Oaks, California, where their library chose The Soloist for last year’s One City, One Book celebration. Here’s a page where they list the descriptions I wrote up for the 46 musical works Steve Lopez mentions in the book, when the Free Library...
by Kile Smith | Jan 6, 2009 | Classical music, Music Criticism
The One Book, One Philadelphia selection for 2009 is The Soloist by Steve Lopez, which has also been made into a movie starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. The Free Library asked me if I’d like to write something short—a few sentences—about each of the musical...