by Kile Smith | Jan 19, 2015 | Art songs, Vocal music
Soprano Sarah Shafer will song my Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Tuesday, January 20th, in her Philadelphia Chamber Music Society recital at the American Philosophical Society, 8 pm. Lydia Brown, assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and on the faculty at the...
by Kile Smith | Jan 9, 2014 | Art songs, Vocal music
Delighted to report that soprano Sarah Shafer will sing my Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins January 31st, 2014, at 7:30 pm, on the concert series presented by Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. The concert is called “Voice & Verse,” and will...
by Kile Smith | Oct 22, 2012 | Classical music, Composition
[Reprinted with permission from the Broad Street Review under “From Beethoven to Wagner: The political uses and abuses of music”] Before you hear any more of my music, maybe you were wondering whom I’m voting for. We’ll get to that after a word from...
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...