by Kile Smith | May 30, 2011 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music
2. Sport, youth Sport, youth, ring out your songs. —Medea Along with you a troop of Bacchanals in Edonian dance beat the ground, now on the peak of Mount Pangaeus, now on the top of Thracian Pindus; now from among the women of Cadmus comes a maenad, impious comrade of...
by Kile Smith | May 29, 2011 | new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
For the Memorial Day Weekend, Sunday May 29th, it’s all solo piano music on Now is the Time. Judith Lang Zaimont’s CD of rags, Prestidigitations, yields two delights, and we dip into Nicola Melville’s recording of some of her favorite contemporary composers for the...
by Kile Smith | May 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
I had forgotten about the contest I entered, and guess what?! Wrong. I didn’t win. It was National Punctuation Day, and there were 25 winners of the haiku contest. I just remembered it and looked it up. Three hundred and fifty-six people submitted more than...
by Kile Smith | May 23, 2011 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music, Spirituality
1. The gates have sounded The gates have sounded, and he himself, with none to guide and sightless, gropes his way. —Oedipus In whose kingdom shall you die? —Troades This is the text that jumped out at me first; from the moment I saw it I never wavered from having it...
by Kile Smith | May 19, 2011 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music, Spirituality
The Waking Sun is my attempt to understand Stoicism. When Donald Nally first asked me to participate in The Crossing’s Seneca project, my first thought was No. I have often wondered why a non-Christian, say, would bother composing a piece with Christian themes,...
