by Kile Smith | Apr 20, 2019 | liturgical music, Lutheran
The end of Lent, Good Friday behind, not yet Easter, and the strangest liturgy of the Church Year: Easter Vigil. There is nothing remotely like the Vigil…. Here’s the essay on the Prelude Music Planner blog of Augsburg Fortress: Reflections on Easter...
by Kile Smith | Oct 28, 2017 | church music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Lutheran, WRTI
Anniversaries bump into each other on this Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday at 5 pm on WRTI. It’s year 500 since the beginning of the Reformation, almost to the day, when Martin Luther posted 95 theological and ecclesiastical points he wished to...
by Kile Smith | Nov 22, 2015 | Choral music, Lutheran, new music
What a stupendous concert with Vespers and The Choristers! They are the first non-professional, non-university choir to perform the entire Vespers, and it came off brilliantly at Saturday night’s concert in the beautiful Trinity Lutheran Church in Lansdale, Pa....
by Kile Smith | May 12, 2015 | Choral music, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music
Greg Stepanich writes in the Palm Beach ArtsPaper, May 10th 2015, on Saturday’s Vespers performance by Seraphic Fire and Piffaro, the third out of four concerts ending Seraphic’s 2015–15 season. In one of the most detailed and perceptive reviews of this...
by Kile Smith | May 7, 2015 | Choral music, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music
David Fleshler writes in the South Florida Classical Review of last night’s performance of Vespers by Seraphic Fire and Piffaro, The Renaissance Band. Describing “the unique tone of the Vespers by American composer Kile Smith,” he writes that...
by Kile Smith | May 4, 2015 | Choral music, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music
What a nice preview of the four Vespers concerts in and around Miami this week with Seraphic Fire and Piffaro, the Renaissance Band. I’m so excited to work again with Piffaro, and honored that Patrick Quigley and two-time Grammy nominee Seraphic Fire, an...
