by Kile Smith | Jun 9, 2009 | Choral music, Music Composition, New Compositions, new music
The Crossing sings final concert of Month of Moderns festival David Patrick Stearns, 8 Jun 2009 an important world premiere… Where Flames a Word took on Paul Celan poems that seem to be about soul recognition through sex – in words too fearlessly personal to be...
by Kile Smith | Jun 1, 2009 | Choral music, Music Composition, New Compositions, new music
Where Flames a Word (Paul Celan) SATB div. 12′. Reviews See the entire score and hear a live performance, here at MusicSpoke. Available on these CDs: It Is Time. The Crossing, Donald Nally A Black Birch in Winter. Voces Musicales, David Puderbaugh. 2020 Estonian...
by Kile Smith | May 17, 2009 | Music Composition, Radio
Donald Nally was on the radio Friday, May 15th, on Marty Moss-Coane’s Radio Times on WHYY, talking about The Crossing’s Month of Moderns series. That project includes settings of Paul Celan texts by me and others. Here’s the podcast; Donald’s on Hour 2 and Vespers...
by Kile Smith | May 4, 2009 | CD Reviews, Music Composition, My CD Reviews, WRTI
My latest CD mini-review for the WRTI E-newsletter. You can read all my CD reviews here. Lang Lang, The Magic Of Lang Lang Lang Lang plays Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Lu Wencheng, Schumann, Chopin, Mozart, Rachmaninov, Haydn, Xinghai Xian, David Foster Deutsche Grammophon...
by Kile Smith | Apr 28, 2009 | CDs, Choral music, Music Composition, New Compositions, new music
Vespers is now released. It’s on the Navona label, where it’s available on download; the CD is also available from Piffaro and Amazon, and Navona has distribution through Naxos. It will be available other places, which I’ll let you know as I find out. It has already...
by Kile Smith | Mar 24, 2009 | Classical music, Music Composition, New Compositions, String Quartet
The sufferings of the world and the desperation of a hopeless love conspire to drag Candide from naïve optimism to resigned skepticism, yet, even in the face of Voltaire’s ridicule he clings to the belief that this is, in fact, the best of all possible worlds. That...
