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...
by Kile Smith | Aug 8, 2011 | Art songs, new music, Vocal music
JC Lockwood’s appraisal of the upcoming premiere of Plain Truths, my failed poetry, and my burgeoning pop career, in his blog Newburyport Arts. A taste: …But sometimes the Philadelphia-based composer takes the word thing almost to the point of obsession: By the...
