by Kile Smith | Jul 12, 2012 | Art songs, Jazz, new music, Vocal music
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...
by Kile Smith | Jan 5, 2012 | Chamber Music, Choral music, Composition, Dance Music, Jazz, Music Composition, new music
Some scattered thoughts on the interview with David Patrick Stearns in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer. Generous remarks by him, and by Donald Nally. Very generous. Am I notoriously self-effacing? Notoriously? I mentioned the Hi-Lo’s in a Broad Street Review...
by Kile Smith | Nov 10, 2010 | CDs, Jazz, Radio, WRTI
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…...