by Kile Smith | Jan 9, 2016 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
New is the word of the day on Now Is the Time, Saturday, January 9th at 9 pm. David Ludwig set The New Colossus, the famous words by Emma Lazarus on the Statue of Liberty, after 9/11, and its timeless message always resonates. From David Starobin’s New Music with...
by Kile Smith | Jan 3, 2015 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
We turn the corner into a new year of Now Is the Time, Saturday, January 3rd at 9 pm. Kevin McCarter’s Prelude and Excursion for orchestra leads into a sacred new year’s dedication for chorus by Carson Cooman, Set Me As a Seal. And then the pianist...
by Kile Smith | Nov 28, 2014 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
We’re thankful on Now Is the Time, Saturday, November 29th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Film composer Victor Young (Shane, Around the World in Eighty Days) was a benefactor of the music department at Brandeis University, so when John Harbison had the...
by Kile Smith | Oct 26, 2013 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
The spirit of Halloween hovers over Now Is the Time, Sunday, October 27th at 10 pm. Strings, bells, melodicas softly accompany waning desert sunlight: such is Drift of Rainbows by Dan Visconti. William Moylan’s setting of the Yeats poem The Stolen Child tells an...
by Kile Smith | Sep 14, 2013 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s good-bye to summer with a little—and more than a little—jazz on Now Is the Time, Sunday, September 15th at 10 pm. Quartet San Francisco starts off the program with Jeremy Cohen’s summery Tango Toscana. Saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa honors his...
