by Kile Smith | Jul 24, 2024 | Choral music, Orchestral Music
Even the Grass Must Sing. SATB, small orchestra (1111-2100-timp-pno-str), or SATB, piano, 18′. Text: Jane Flanders (1940-2001). Commissioned by The Choristers, David Spitko, Artistic Director, and premiered by them 26 Apr 2025, Trinity Lutheran Church, Lansdale,...
by Kile Smith | Jul 5, 2024 | Choral music, Organ music, Spirituality
Arise, O Lord. Psalm 132 for SATB choir and organ, 10′. Commissioned for the Psalm Festival of the 2024 Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod Institute on Liturgy, Preaching and Church Music, with deep gratitude to The Rev. Sean Daenzer, Director of Worship and...
by Kile Smith | Nov 7, 2023 | Choral music, new music
Franklinville-Schwarzwald Männerchor Sängergruß (2023). TTBB, 1’30”. Premiered 5 Nov 2023 at the Fall Concert of the Damenchor Wald-Echo with the Franklinville-Schwarzwald Männerchor, Jacqueline Smith director, Vereinigung Erzgebirge, Warminster PA. A...
by Kile Smith | Oct 12, 2023 | Choral music
In German, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, this transcription of the second movement from the original Vespers is for SATB and organ with optional violin and theorbo, 4’30”. This was premiered, in English, 23 Sep 2023 by Transept, Timothy Campbell,...
by Kile Smith | Oct 12, 2023 | Choral music
This transcription of the first movement from the original Vespers is for TTBB and organ, 2′. This was premiered 23 Sep 2023 by Transept, Timothy Campbell, Founder and Artistic Director, at the Cathedral of St. Joseph, Sioux Falls, SD. Aaron Cates, Nicholas...
by Kile Smith | Aug 10, 2023 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music
Dark Is the Night and Green Is the Grass (Tumša nakte, zaļā zāle). 2023, Latvian folk song, SATB, 3’30”, in Latvian with English translation. Dedicated with gratitude, respect, and love to Christopher Walsh Sinka and the Riga Project Choir. In Latvia in...
