by Kile Smith | Aug 21, 2013 | Broad Street Review
[Christianity is just peachy without all those Christian parts, wags someone’s finger in the Broad Street Review. My response below, published in BSR, 20 Aug 2013, under the title Breaking news about the Virgin Birth (a response).] In a shocking exposé, the...
by Kile Smith | May 19, 2011 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music, Spirituality
The Waking Sun is my attempt to understand Stoicism. When Donald Nally first asked me to participate in The Crossing’s Seneca project, my first thought was No. I have often wondered why a non-Christian, say, would bother composing a piece with Christian themes,...
by Kile Smith | May 14, 2011 | Choral music, new music
Finished a couple of weeks ago, actually. The performance, with The Crossing and Tempesta di Mare, is June 18th, and although I’ve been working on it for over a year, it’s been off and on, with other, smaller works getting attention in between. But once I...
