by Kile Smith | Aug 23, 2011 | Art songs, Chamber Music, new music, Vocal music
Plain Truths, just premiered at the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival, picks up a nice review in The Boston Musical Intelligencer, the journal and blog of the classical music scene in Boston. Sudeep Agarwala likes the “early-American sound-world” of the...
by Kile Smith | Aug 17, 2011 | Art songs, new music, Vocal music
Joel Brown writes in the Boston Globe about the upcoming premiere of Plain Truths: …“These seacoast people see the world and learn,’’ the Gothic novelist Harriet Prescott Spofford wrote about Newburyport. Turns out they hear and learn, too. The words of Spofford and...
by Kile Smith | Aug 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
“No tights,” I said. I would dress up as an Elizabethan king, but I was not going to wear tights at the re-opening of Shakespeare Park… So begins my article in the Broad Street Review, which you can read here. Pictures at WHYY and the Free Library of...
by Kile Smith | Aug 8, 2011 | Art songs, new music, Vocal music
JC Lockwood’s appraisal of the upcoming premiere of Plain Truths, my failed poetry, and my burgeoning pop career, in his blog Newburyport Arts. A taste: …But sometimes the Philadelphia-based composer takes the word thing almost to the point of obsession: By the...
by Kile Smith | Aug 5, 2011 | Art songs, new music, Vocal music
To mark the Tenth Anniversary of the Newburyport Summer Music Festival, Music Director and violist David Yang wanted to commission a work as a special thank-you to the Festival’s home. We decided that a song cycle for baritone and the resident string quartet,...
