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...
