by Kile Smith | Jan 27, 2012 | Baroque music, Chamber Music, Dance Music, new music
From the Flute Pro Shop: “a total triumph… entrancing… fresh harmonic language, and counterpoint (this is counterpoint that is not always imitative-very interesting!) and instrumentation which reminds me of operatic ensembles in which each character...
by Kile Smith | Jan 23, 2012 | Chamber Music, Dance Music, New Compositions, new music
Referring to Vespers and saying that I have made a name from “composing new music for older instruments,” Michael Caruso in the Chestnut Hill Local calls The Nobility of Women “concisely pointed character sketches of baroque dances.” I...
by Kile Smith | Jan 19, 2012 | Choral music, new music, Radio, WRTI
Live performances of Vespers, The Waking Sun, and Where Flames a Word will be on the radio this weekend: Sunday, January 22, 2012 3:00 – 5:00 PM WRTI – 90.1FM, Philadelphia and online anywhere: www.wrti.org From The Crossing: “Vespers, the work that...
by Kile Smith | Jan 18, 2012 | Baroque music
These guys—and not just the one raised in my house—are the real deal. Fabulous players, all, and exciting to watch and hear. Check them out if at all possible. PHOENIXtail Beth Wenstrom, violin Priscilla Smith, oboe & recorders Ezra Seltzer, ‘cello Jeffrey...
by Kile Smith | Jan 17, 2012 | Chamber Music, Dance Music, New Compositions, new music
The “kind of musical layering that makes his choral works so entrancing” spoke to the Philadelphia Inquirer’s David Patrick Stearns in his review of The Nobility of Women, my premiere with Mélomanie this past weekend. It’s a dance suite for...
