by Kile Smith | Jul 29, 2010 | Choral music, new music
For the last Month of Moderns concert, Donald Nally included Where flames a word with works by Paul Fowler, Lansing McLoskey, Frank Havrøy, and David Shapiro. I loved the premiere performances of Where flames last year; this year was even better. Donald seemed to move...
by Kile Smith | Jul 10, 2010 | CDs, Choral music, new music
The Crossing’s premiere of Where Flames a Word last year received such great feedback that they’re singing it again this Saturday. My setting of Paul Celan texts will be on their Month of Moderns (MOM III) season finale, Saturday July 17th, 2010. It’s at the...
by Kile Smith | Jul 4, 2010 | Classical music, New Compositions, new music
This started as another piece with another title. Ursinus College asked me to compose a short work honoring President John Strassburger on his retirement, and the key to the piece came from his own writings. In his essay on Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, he...
