by Kile Smith | May 23, 2011 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music, Spirituality
1. The gates have sounded The gates have sounded, and he himself, with none to guide and sightless, gropes his way. —Oedipus In whose kingdom shall you die? —Troades This is the text that jumped out at me first; from the moment I saw it I never wavered from having it...
by Kile Smith | Jul 4, 2010 | Classical music, New Compositions, new music
This started as another piece with another title. Ursinus College asked me to compose a short work honoring President John Strassburger on his retirement, and the key to the piece came from his own writings. In his essay on Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, he...
