by Kile Smith | May 15, 2012 | CD Reviews, CDs, Classical music, Dance Music, My CD Reviews, new music, Radio, WRTI
My latest CD mini-review for WRTI, including podcast with musical excerpts. You can read all my CD reviews here. https://kilesmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/madmencdreviewfinal.mp3 Matthew Weiner, the creator of the hugely popular TV series Mad Men—now in its...
by Kile Smith | Mar 5, 2012 | CD Reviews, CDs, Classical music, Dance Music, My CD Reviews, new music, Radio, WRTI
My latest CD mini-review for WRTI, including podcast. You can read all my CD reviews here. Soliloquy: Music of Mark Hagerty Mark Hagerty’s music is smart and sneaky. Let’s start with sneaky. He doesn’t show off: his music is so nicely grounded that...
by Kile Smith | Jan 27, 2012 | Baroque music, Chamber Music, Dance Music, new music
From the Flute Pro Shop: “a total triumph… entrancing… fresh harmonic language, and counterpoint (this is counterpoint that is not always imitative-very interesting!) and instrumentation which reminds me of operatic ensembles in which each character...
by Kile Smith | Jan 23, 2012 | Chamber Music, Dance Music, New Compositions, new music
Referring to Vespers and saying that I have made a name from “composing new music for older instruments,” Michael Caruso in the Chestnut Hill Local calls The Nobility of Women “concisely pointed character sketches of baroque dances.” I...
by Kile Smith | Jan 17, 2012 | Chamber Music, Dance Music, New Compositions, new music
The “kind of musical layering that makes his choral works so entrancing” spoke to the Philadelphia Inquirer’s David Patrick Stearns in his review of The Nobility of Women, my premiere with Mélomanie this past weekend. It’s a dance suite for...
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...
