by Kile Smith | Dec 3, 2016 | Brass Music, Brass Quintet, new music
Annunciation and Magnificat. Brass quintet (with opt. flugelhorns), narrator, 22 minutes Annunciation and Magnificat is a set of musings on the text of the first chapter of Luke, verses 26 through 55. Beginning with the announcement to Mary from the angel Gabriel that...
by Kile Smith | Mar 24, 2013 | church music, liturgical music, new music
[First published 26 Mar 2013 in the Broad Street Review and reprinted with permission.] We continued our tradition of the chanted Passion this morning, Palm Sunday. Three singers, as Narrator, Christ, and Speaker, chanted this year’s appointed setting, which is...