by Kile Smith | Oct 5, 2015 | Jazz, WRTI, WRTI Arts Desk
[First published in WRTI’s Arts Desk 5 Oct 2015] Two Englishmen, Guy Wood and Robert Mellin, slipped it into the Great American Songbook just before it closed, just as rock rolled over sophistication. It begins from below, a slowly twisting Roman candle of a tune, and...
by Kile Smith | Sep 23, 2015 | Classical music, Spirituality, WRTI, WRTI Arts Desk
A concert piece for cello and orchestra uses sacred music from the center of Jewish tradition. Consider the Kol Nidre of Max Bruch, a work with wide appeal from an unlikely composer. At the center of the Jewish year are the High Holy Days, culminating in Yom Kippur....
