by Kile Smith | May 18, 2014 | Anthem, Choral music, church music, hymn
For the 150th anniversary of Emilie United Methodist Church in Levittown, Pa., I was commissioned for an anthem, sung this morning by their choir, led by Music Director Ryan Fleming. It’s SATB accompanied by either organ or piano. I’ve actually written out...
by Kile Smith | Apr 20, 2013 | Anthem, Choral music, church music, hymn, new music
A big thank-you to John French, Alan Morrison, and the combined Ursinus College Choir and Meistersingers for their work on my six anthems tonight at Ursinus College. What a beautiful concert! Even when some nice people entered Bomberger Hall late! Also on the program...
by Kile Smith | Apr 18, 2013 | Anthem, Choral music, church music, hymn, new music
I’m looking forward to hearing a whole slew of my anthems sung by the combined Ursinus College Choir and Meistersingers this Saturday, April 20th, 7:30 pm at Ursinus College. John French conducts, and Alan Morrison is the organist. I attended rehearsal last week...
by Kile Smith | Mar 4, 2013 | American music, Anthem, Choral music, church music, Early Music, hymn
Written and published years ago, Come, Ye Sinners harks back to the music I’ve always harked back to, early American hymnody. The text is by the 18th-century Englishman Joseph Hart, the tune by the 19th-century American Benjamin Franklin White, one of the...
by Kile Smith | Dec 17, 2012 | Choral music, church music, hymn, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music
Thank you to Jackie and the choir of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Abington, Pa., for singing my hymn, Powers of Heaven yesterday. The hymn is a setting of an Advent text by the Rev. Dr. Michael Tavella at Holy Trinity. It was Vespers for this Third Sunday of Advent,...
by Kile Smith | Dec 10, 2012 | Choral music, church music, hymn, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music
Thanks to Musica Concordia for singing my hymn, Powers of Heaven, yesterday at St. Cecilia’s Church in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia. The hymn is a setting of an evocative Advent text by Michael Tavella; we’ve used it in church a few times already....
