by Kile Smith | Sep 3, 2021 | Chamber Music, Choral music, hymn, liturgical music, new music, Vocal music
“Held the audience spellbound,” “leaping to their feet in a standing ovation,” “raucous,” “beautifully crafted, “especially moving and inventive,” “a worthy addition to that sacred canon” — Gail...
by Kile Smith | Aug 1, 2017 | Broad Street Review, Composition
[First published in Broad Street Review, 1 Aug 2017] This is the part they don’t tell you when they tell you about composing. This is the part where every start to your piece is wrong, every note is wrong, every page you’re staring at is false and mocking and hateful,...
by Kile Smith | May 29, 2015 | Choral music, liturgical music, new music
“Vespers,” writes Sebastian Spreng in Miami Clasica, El Nuevo Herald (the Spanish edition of the Miami Herald), and Knight Arts, “astonishes the listener.” He praises Seraphic Fire and Piffaro, the Renaissance Band for “the tapestry masterfully woven by angelic...
by Kile Smith | May 12, 2015 | Choral music, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music
Greg Stepanich writes in the Palm Beach ArtsPaper, May 10th 2015, on Saturday’s Vespers performance by Seraphic Fire and Piffaro, the third out of four concerts ending Seraphic’s 2015–15 season. In one of the most detailed and perceptive reviews of this...
by Kile Smith | May 7, 2015 | Choral music, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music
David Fleshler writes in the South Florida Classical Review of last night’s performance of Vespers by Seraphic Fire and Piffaro, The Renaissance Band. Describing “the unique tone of the Vespers by American composer Kile Smith,” he writes that...
