by Kile Smith | Mar 18, 2021 | Fleisher Discoveries, WRTI
There’s a warm remembrance of Bliss on the WRTI website, along with a lovely note by Debra Lew Harder. He died last week from COVID-19, following his wife Peggy, who was taken by the pandemic only a fortnight earlier. So sad. I had seen Bliss playing in the bass...
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 | Nov 13, 2014 | Choral music, new music, Radio
WWFM’s Noon Concert, Friday, Nov 14th, hosted by David Osenberg and Sebastian Currier, is a broadcast of The Crossing, Donald Nally, director, from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton at Wolfensohn Hall. It’s the world premiere of my recent work...
by Kile Smith | Jul 15, 2012 | CDs, Choral music, liturgical music, Lutheran, Radio
Ross Amico broadcast all of Vespers on WWFM as promised on his all-Philadelphia show this morning. A portion of the playlist is to the left; check out the complete lineup here. If you can guess the Philadelphia connection for all of them, you’re pretty...
by Kile Smith | Jul 11, 2012 | CDs, Choral music, Radio
Ross Amico, one of the announcers over at classical radio station WWFM in New Jersey, is programming a weekend of Philadelphia composers, to celebrate the station’s new HD2 signal into Philadelphia. I’m always astonished by how much my classical announcer...