Poems of Stephen Berg

Network for New Music commissioned these songs in 2000, and the premiere was 26 Jan 2001 with Martha Elliot, soprano, Arne Running, clarinet, and Linda Reichert, piano. Latonia Moore performed them the following year at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, with...

Horace Silver

Filling in at WRTI, midnight to 6, my first-ever on-air jazz shift. At 1:05 a.m., the phone rings. Two and a half minutes to end of CD. “WRTI, Kile Smith.” “Hey, who’s this?” Um… “This is Kile, hi.” …Silence…...