by Kile Smith | Feb 27, 2015 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s all whispers and shadows on Now Is the Time, Saturday, February 28th at 9 pm. Deliciously riffing on Shakespeare takes us to where comedy, tears, and romance meet, in Daron Hagen’s Much Ado for orchestra. JG Thirlwell produces sweeping cinematic...
by Kile Smith | Feb 26, 2015 | Art songs, new music, Vocal music
What a great night at the preview party for In This Blue Room last night! Lyric Fest held it at the Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA) in Center City Philadelphia, and the co-directors performed: mezzo-soprano Suzanne DuPlantis sang four of the songs, accompanied by pianist...
by Kile Smith | Feb 21, 2015 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Everything’s numbered on Now Is the Time, Saturday, February 21st at 9 pm. Rudy Davenport comes up with Seven Innocent Dances for harpsichord, and for piano are the Bagatelles of Paul Chihara, subtitled Twice Seven Haiku. The Ancia Saxophone Quartet performs...
by Kile Smith | Feb 19, 2015 | Choral music, new music
Tonight’s episode of the new program by Jim Cotter, Articulate, airs 10:30 pm on WHYY-TV in Philadelphia, with an extensive interview with Donald Nally, conductor and co-founder of The Crossing, the amazing new-music choir. There are also segments on cellist...
by Kile Smith | Feb 17, 2015 | Broad Street Review, Composition
[First published in the Broad Street Review, 20 Jan 2014] If you haven’t seen the article on how to write a symphony, you should check it out, because it’s filled with incisive advice like “Be inspired,” and “Eventually each theme will become a decently long...
