by Kile Smith | May 1, 2013 | Classical music, Early Music
[First published in the Broad Street Review, 30 April 2013, under the title The great debate: Sackbut or trombone?] When all you have is a hammer, it’s said, everything starts to look like a nail. The job of constructing an answer to the early/modern instrument...
by Kile Smith | Mar 23, 2013 | Chamber Music, new music
Chant was commissioned by the Philadelphia trombonist Thomas Elliott to perform with his daughter, bassoonist Rachel Elliott, for her senior recital at Carnegie Mellon University. The music sets, after a fashion, 1 Corinthians 12:4–6, “Now there are diversities...
