by Kile Smith | Apr 30, 2012 | Baroque music, Choral music, church music, Classical music
Thomas Lloyd agrees and disagrees a bit with me in the Letters section of the Broad Street Review. We corresponded quite a bit on this, after my article (itself a response) on Bach, the St. John Passion, and the charge of anti-Semitism. Our emails drifted into the...
by Kile Smith | Jan 27, 2012 | Baroque music, Chamber Music, Dance Music, new music
From the Flute Pro Shop: “a total triumph… entrancing… fresh harmonic language, and counterpoint (this is counterpoint that is not always imitative-very interesting!) and instrumentation which reminds me of operatic ensembles in which each character...
by Kile Smith | Jan 18, 2012 | Baroque music
These guys—and not just the one raised in my house—are the real deal. Fabulous players, all, and exciting to watch and hear. Check them out if at all possible. PHOENIXtail Beth Wenstrom, violin Priscilla Smith, oboe & recorders Ezra Seltzer, ‘cello Jeffrey...
by Kile Smith | Apr 11, 2011 | Baroque music, Classical music
Priscilla Smith, our oldest daughter, has already been a busy musician. She plays oboe, Baroque oboe, Classical oboe, oboe d’amore, oboe da caccia, English horn, let’s see, recorders, shawms, dulcians, and… just about every other historical wind...
by Kile Smith | Sep 12, 2010 | Baroque music, Composition, Pop Music
[A revised version of this, without musical examples, published in Broad Street Review 20 Mar 2012 as “Between Bach and ‘O-o-h Child'”] One of the best pop songs ever produced, “O-o-h Child,” from 1970, is #392 in Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs...
