by Kile Smith | Jun 13, 2011 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music
6. While on such beauty the lover gazes While on such beauty the lover gazes, her cheeks suddenly glow with rosy blush. Snowy wool turns crimson thus when bathed in purple flood; so gleams the waking sun when the shepherd, wet with the dew of the dawn of the day,...
by Kile Smith | Jun 5, 2011 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music
3. That wanton, smiling boy That wanton, smiling boy, how true he aims his shafts! The wound he deals has no broad front, but eats its way deep into the bone. His madness glides into the marrow; with creeping fire he ravages the veins. His arrows strike the lowest...
by Kile Smith | May 30, 2011 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music
2. Sport, youth Sport, youth, ring out your songs. —Medea Along with you a troop of Bacchanals in Edonian dance beat the ground, now on the peak of Mount Pangaeus, now on the top of Thracian Pindus; now from among the women of Cadmus comes a maenad, impious comrade of...