by Kile Smith | Dec 15, 2025 | Choral music, new music
Donald Nally reminded me a few days ago that The Crossing and I have been collaborating for 17 years. Ever since Piffaro, The Renaissance Band put us together for Vespers, we’ve plowed this field o’music together. I’m astonished at, and gratified by...
by Kile Smith | Oct 11, 2025 | Choral music, new music
Let All the Strains of Joy (Tagore). 2025, SATB, 6′. Premiered 18 Oct 2025 by The Crossing, Donald Nally, Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, and 19 Oct, First Presbyterian Church, Germantown, Philadelphia. Joy, the touchstone of this poem, is...
by Kile Smith | Apr 3, 2022 | Choral music
Where the Mind Is Without Fear. SATB, 4’30”. Text by Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), from Gitanjali (Song Offerings), No. 35 (1912). Commissioned by the University of New Mexico Concert Choir, Dr. David Edmonds, Conductor. Premiered by them 22 Apr 2022. The recording...
by Kile Smith | Dec 30, 2019 | CDs, Choral music, Radio
The Arc in the Sky is receiving more and more airplay from around the country and even internationally! At the end of the year, these are the stations we know about so far. A big Thank-You from me, The Crossing, and Navona Records to the hosts, program directors, and...
by Kile Smith | Sep 7, 2019 | CD Reviews, CDs, Choral music
Laurence Vittes praises The Arc in the Sky, the CD The Crossing, directed by Donald Nally, released this summer on Navona, in a thoughtful October 2019 Gramophone magazine review. My description of the work as a “65-minute pilgrimage for unaccompanied...
