by Kile Smith | Feb 1, 2016 | Classical music, WRTI Arts Desk
[First published in WRTI’s Arts Desk, 1 Feb 2016. Reprinted by permission.] The recording industry gives out the GRAMMY Awards in two weeks, and WRTI’s Kile Smith looks at the classical categories, which include some local names. On February 15th the 58th Grammy...
by Kile Smith | Mar 3, 2015 | Classical music
This is the orchestra, the band, the choir, the teachers, everybody, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin guest-conducting them, in Verdi’s Finale and Triumphal March from Aida, at the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall in Philadelphia last night. Our Martina played...
by Kile Smith | Dec 16, 2011 | Radio, WRTI
My impromptu interview with Yannick Nézet-Séguin from last month is available here on the WRTI site. And hey, here’s another photo, taken through the broadcast studio window (you can make out some reflection). To my left, Cecil B. Moore Avenue. Behind Yannick is...
by Kile Smith | Nov 15, 2011 | Radio, WRTI
OK, here’s the photo. My glasses reflect the two computer monitors—on the left, holding pre-recorded spots and such, and on the right, holding all the documents to be read live, weather reports, and other items. The two pieces of paper on the desk are the...
by Kile Smith | Nov 13, 2011 | Radio, WRTI
Subbing on WRTI’s Friday midday shift, I had the unexpected pleasure to chat in the studio with Yannick Nézet-Séguin. This photo on the Philadelphia Orchestra Facebook page captures us. (I’m the one with glasses. Just so you know.) WRTI played many of his...
