by Kile Smith | Jan 19, 2008 | Classical music, Lutheran, Music Composition
Ecstatically beautiful • blessed with inspiration • thoroughly engaging • making ancient things modern is more common in Europe, but few such endeavors by Peteris Vasks, Giya Kancheli or Arvo Pärt have Smith’s lyrical immediacy and ability to find great musical variety...
by Kile Smith | Jan 10, 2008 | church music, hymn, liturgical music, Lutheran
First published in Lutheran Forum, Fall 2003 Out of all the questions Gordon A. Beck asks in “Questions About Current Lutheran Music Practices” (Lutheran Forum, Easter/Spring 2003), he’s really asking only one: “What do we desire?” His answer is: “Let’s do that.” For...
by Kile Smith | Jan 2, 2008 | American music, Chamber Music, new music
Air and Jig for english horn and viola was written in 2007 in memory of Anthony Simmons, at the request of his widow Marka Kasker-Simmons. It was premiered by Kathleen Foster, viola (New Jersey Symphony), and Lloyd Shorter, english horn (Co-Artistic Director,...
by Kile Smith | Jan 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
It’s John Wesley Pinckney (1861–1919), a great-grandfather of Jackie’s, in, we think, Nebraska or Iowa. The “Grandpa Pinckney” written along the bottom looks to be the handwriting of Jackie’s maternal grandmother, Lillian Fay Buckley Pinckney, perhaps as a keepsake...
