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 | Dec 2, 2013 | Choral music, church music
What a service. All thanks to Matt Glandorf and the choir of St. Mark’s Church, Philadelphia, along with organist Tom Sheehan and harpist Madeline Blood, for such a stirring presentation yesterday of the Magnificat, at Advent Lessons & Carols. Matt had asked...
by Kile Smith | Nov 30, 2013 | Choral music, church music
The premiere of the re-cast Magnificat from Vespers takes place tomorrow, December 1st 2013, in the first Advent Lessons and Carols of the season at St. Mark’s, 16th and Locust, under the direction of Matthew Glandorf, at 4 pm. Since I composed Vespers for choir...
by Kile Smith | Dec 17, 2012 | Choral music, church music, hymn, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music
Thank you to Jackie and the choir of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Abington, Pa., for singing my hymn, Powers of Heaven yesterday. The hymn is a setting of an Advent text by the Rev. Dr. Michael Tavella at Holy Trinity. It was Vespers for this Third Sunday of Advent,...
by Kile Smith | Jan 12, 2012 | Choral music, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music, Spirituality
David Patrick Stearns compares Monteverdi and me. He went to recent performances of a “Vespers” (not 1610), put together from later Monteverdi works by the Green Mountain Project, and my Vespers, and believes that both the master and I resolve dichotomies...
