by Kile Smith | Jul 9, 2013 | Art songs, new music, Vocal music
Jeremy Galyon is an ear-opening bass/baritone who premiered my Plain Truths in 2011 at the Newburyport Summer Music Festival. This past Sunday he sang three songs from the cycle at the Songs on a Summer Afternoon series in Ocean Grove, N.J. He astonished me (again)...
by Kile Smith | Jun 13, 2013 | Art songs, new music, Vocal music
I’m delighted that Jeremy Galyon, the wonderful bass/baritone who premiered my Plain Truths, will reprise some of it Sunday July 7th at the Ocean Grove Chamber Music Series in Ocean Grove, N.J. Jeremy’s taking the song cycle from the coastal town of...
by Kile Smith | Feb 5, 2012 | Art songs, new music, Vocal music
I finished making the piano reduction of my song cycle Plain Truths a few days ago, finally being able to get to it after some other deadlines. It premiered in August at the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival, with bass/baritone Jeremy Galyon and the Festival String...
by Kile Smith | Aug 17, 2011 | Art songs, new music, Vocal music
Joel Brown writes in the Boston Globe about the upcoming premiere of Plain Truths: …“These seacoast people see the world and learn,’’ the Gothic novelist Harriet Prescott Spofford wrote about Newburyport. Turns out they hear and learn, too. The words of Spofford and...
by Kile Smith | Aug 5, 2011 | Art songs, new music, Vocal music
To mark the Tenth Anniversary of the Newburyport Summer Music Festival, Music Director and violist David Yang wanted to commission a work as a special thank-you to the Festival’s home. We decided that a song cycle for baritone and the resident string quartet,...
