by Kile Smith | Jan 8, 2015 | Baroque music, CDs, Chamber Music, new music
The Baroque/New music group Mélomanie is featured in the current Chamber Music America magazine, coinciding with the release of their new CD Excursions. The CD includes my work for them, The Nobility of Women (with guest-artist Priscilla Herreid), and the article...
by Kile Smith | Nov 16, 2014 | CDs, Chamber Music, new music
The Brazilian composer Sergio Roberto de Oliveira, holding the poster for Mélomanie’s concert in Rio de Janeiro on November 22nd, during the international four-day festival Compositores de Hoje. I was honored to meet Sergio in Wilmington at our release party for...
by Kile Smith | Jun 28, 2013 | American music, CDs, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
Stories of suffering and joy define our culture on Now Is the Time, Sunday, June 30th at 10 pm. Elena Ruehr’s Averno sets the poetry of Pulitzer-winning Louise Glück, the 2003–04 U.S. Poet Laureate. The door to the underworld in Roman myth is at Lake Averno or...
by Kile Smith | Jun 21, 2013 | American music, CDs, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s a monument of contemporary solo piano literature on Now Is the Time, Sunday, June 23rd at 10 pm. Frederic Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated is a staggering set of 36 variations on a Chilean folk song for solo piano. Beginning with a...
by Kile Smith | Jun 14, 2013 | American music, CDs, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s surprising remembrance on Now Is the Time, Sunday, June 16th at 10 pm. In her Cantata da Requiem, World War II Poems of Peace, Gloria Coates gathers unlikely texts—including a BBC 1942 weather report—into a haunting cry. Philip Blackburn remixes Robert...
by Kile Smith | Jun 9, 2013 | American music, CDs, new music, Radio
It’s all movement and angles on Now Is the Time, Sunday, June 9th at 10 pm. Sergio Cervetti’s two harpsichord pieces Candombe and Alberada spin and dance, while Elizabeth Brown’s chamber work Liguria bends deliciously (she’s also the flutist)....
