by Kile Smith | Mar 16, 2013 | Choral music, New Compositions
[First published 16 Mar 2013 in the Broad Street Review and reprinted with permission.] Because Donald Nally and The Crossing have performed my music, anything favorable I write about them might be read as biased. But I wanted to describe the effect of Thomas Lloyd’s...
by Kile Smith | Mar 16, 2013 | Art songs, Lutheran, new music, Vocal music
Stationen auf dem Wege zur Freiheit (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) 1998; soprano, tenor saxophone, piano; 15′ 1. Zucht (Discipline) score example https://kilesmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/stationen1zucht.mp3 2. Tat (Deed) score...
by Kile Smith | Apr 25, 2012 | Broad Street Review, Lutheran
[First published in the Broad Street Review 24 April 2012 and reprinted here with permission.]I’m glad that Steve Cohen has a hard time believing Bach to be anti-Semitic (See “Bach, King Frederick and the Jews”). It’s hard to believe because...