by Kile Smith | Sep 6, 2014 | Choral music, Organ music
A blurb about organ and choral premieres, along with my mug shot, in TAO this month because I used the simple technique of mentioning the names of organist Alan Morrison, Abington Presbyterian Church’s music director John Sall, the Church of the Holy...
by Kile Smith | Mar 30, 2014 | Anthem, Choral music, church music, Organ music
Alan Morrison plays my Two Meditations on Freu dich sehr at Ursinus College today at 4:00, on the Heefner Organ in his recital in Bomberger Auditorium. Along with being head of the organ departments at the Curtis Institute of Music and Westminster Choir College of...
by Kile Smith | Mar 17, 2014 | church music, Organ music
Cue the snow. Postponed a month by two snowstorms that had knocked out the power for a couple days at Abington Presbyterian Church in Abington, Pa., Two Meditations on Freu dich sehr received its premiere yesterday on the Dedicatory Concert for the Organ Restoration...
by Kile Smith | Feb 12, 2014 | church music, Organ music
Just got done telling someone how much I love snow; that’ll teach me. It is the indirect cause—the snow, not my telling, I hope—of the postponement of Alan Morrison’s premiere of my solo organ piece Two Meditations on Freu dich sehr, commissioned by...
by Kile Smith | Dec 3, 2013 | church music, Organ music
Here’s a video of Kurt Knecht playing the first Meditation. The doorbell rang Sunday afternoon and I hit the Send button. That was that; no more fussing. I sent off the new piece and went to a concert with friends. Actually, I had finished the new solo organ...
