by Kile Smith | Dec 3, 2010 | Composition, new music, Vocal music
A mention in This Week at Pytheas: David Patrick Stearns of the Philadelphia Inquirer called Kile Smith’s Vespers “breathtaking” and “ecstatically beautiful,” adding that “few have Smith’s lyrical immediacy and ability to find...
by Kile Smith | Jan 24, 2010 | Art songs, new music, Vocal music
Attracted to Gerard Manley Hopkins since college, I consider him still to be my favorite poet. 1989 was the centenary of his death, and I was asked to provide settings to poems of my choosing for the international Hopkins conference being held at St. Joseph’s...
