by Kile Smith | Feb 12, 2009 | CDs, Music Composition, new music
Definitely one, and maybe two CDs will be released this weekend. Vespers, we’re still waiting to hear for certain, but a box o’CDs may show up at the Piffaro concerts February 13–15. I plan to be at Friday’s concert at St. Mark’s in Center City Philadelphia. The CD of...
by Kile Smith | Feb 10, 2009 | CD Reviews, CDs, Music Composition, My CD Reviews, WRTI
For Valentine’s Day, WRTI asked us for our “favorite romantic CDs.” I came up with one easily enough (the same one Bob Perkins did…I am not worthy and no, I did not peek), but then thought that a classical CD might be expected of me, so then I was stumped. Favorite...
by Kile Smith | Feb 9, 2009 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Music Composition, Radio, WRTI
On the first Saturday of the month (but on the 2nd Saturday this month because of last week’s fund drive), Jack Moore and I host Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection on WRTI 90.1 FM. You can hear us in the Philadelphia area or online at wrti.org. We also broadcast...
by Kile Smith | Feb 1, 2009 | Choral music, Music Composition, new music, Radio
Andrew Patner interviewed Donald Nally on his January 26 broadcast of Critical Thinking, one of his programs on WFMT-FM, Chicago’s classical music station. Patner is WFMT’s critic-at-large and is also a classical music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. Donald is the...
by Kile Smith | Jan 29, 2009 | CDs, Music Composition, New Compositions
Last month Anne Martindale Williams, Paul Jones, and I got together to rehearse the American Spirituals, Book Two for the upcoming CD. They rehearsed, that is. I hovered and said those things composers say at those times when musicians rehearse and composers hover....
by Kile Smith | Jan 19, 2009 | Choral music, church music, Composition, liturgical music, Lutheran, Music Composition, New Compositions
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Abington crops up in the calendar here and previous years a good bit and that’s because it’s my church, Jackie is the Director of Music, and I volunteer, or am sometimes requested by same Director, to produce music for various services....
