by Kile Smith | May 27, 2017 | Children's Music, Choral music, New Compositions, String Quartet
I Could See the Sky. For SATB, 2-part Treble Choir, Keyboard, optional String Quartet, 17 minutes (Treble Choir may be boys and/or girls or a few women) The editing process is usually severe. Many good things—music, text, both—are often left on the cutting room floor,...
by Kile Smith | Sep 10, 2013 | Art songs, Broad Street Review, Choral music, new music, String Quartet
[Broad Street Review published an edited version of this 9 Sep 2013 as Composer’s challenge: From quartet to piano.] Having slid head-first into the double bar of the song cycle Plain Truths for baritone and string quartet, all I needed to do in the week before the...
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 23, 2011 | Art songs, Chamber Music, new music, Vocal music
Plain Truths, just premiered at the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival, picks up a nice review in The Boston Musical Intelligencer, the journal and blog of the classical music scene in Boston. Sudeep Agarwala likes the “early-American sound-world” of the...
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...
