by Kile Smith | Feb 26, 2013 | Chamber Music, New Compositions, new music
“an excellent (but short) new Kile Smith piece… Red-tail and Hummingbird, was played by both ensembles in separate performances. The Piffaro version had particularly intellectual passion clearly outlining the memorable thematic basis of the piece and...
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...
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,...
