by Kile Smith | May 27, 2017 | Children's Music, Choral music, New Compositions, String Quartet
I Could See the Sky. For SATB, 2-part Treble Choir, Keyboard, optional String Quartet, 17 minutes (Treble Choir may be boys and/or girls or a few women) The editing process is usually severe. Many good things—music, text, both—are often left on the cutting room floor,...
by Kile Smith | Nov 18, 2013 | Art songs, Choral music, new music, Vocal music
What a blessed community is Newburyport, Massachusetts, briefly seen for four days during the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival. On Saturday night, November 16th, in a packed auditorium at Newburyport’s City Hall, the Festival presented my Plain Truths along...
by Kile Smith | Nov 16, 2013 | Art songs, Choral music, Vocal music
Looking forward to tonight’s concert! Plain Truths—world premiere of the new expanded version—at the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival; one more rehearsal in about an hour, with the chorus, then showtime at 7:00, in a quite nice old wooden auditorium in...
by Kile Smith | Sep 1, 2013 | Art songs, Choral music, new music, String Quartet
The full score was finished last week. Yesterday, so was the piano reduction, and, today, the parts. September 1st deadline, why hello and let’s do this again sometime. Everything of the song cycle Plain Truths is now in to the musicians performing this new,...
by Kile Smith | Dec 3, 2012 | American music, Chamber Music, new music
My children’s piece for narrator, violin, and cello, The Bremen Town Musicians, is on the boards Saturday with Auricolae. What musicians for this performance!: violinist Juliette Kang, cellist Tom Kraines, and the inimitable leader, narrator, violist, composer,...
