by Kile Smith | Jan 23, 2013 | Chamber Music, Early Music, New Compositions, new music
[First published 21 Jan 2013 in the Broad Street Review and reprinted with permission.] Careening diagonally across the top of my line of sight, a large bird swooped down and slammed into the holly branches not seven feet away from me, scattering sparrows and...
by Kile Smith | Dec 17, 2012 | Choral music, church music, hymn, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music
Thank you to Jackie and the choir of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Abington, Pa., for singing my hymn, Powers of Heaven yesterday. The hymn is a setting of an Advent text by the Rev. Dr. Michael Tavella at Holy Trinity. It was Vespers for this Third Sunday of Advent,...
by Kile Smith | Dec 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
My thanks to Matt Glandorf for the exquisite performance of Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn at the first Lessons & Carols of the Advent season at Saint Mark’s, Philadelphia. This anthem is from Vespers, an a cappella setting of the early Reformation hymn...
by Kile Smith | Jan 5, 2012 | Chamber Music, Choral music, Composition, Dance Music, Jazz, Music Composition, new music
Some scattered thoughts on the interview with David Patrick Stearns in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer. Generous remarks by him, and by Donald Nally. Very generous. Am I notoriously self-effacing? Notoriously? I mentioned the Hi-Lo’s in a Broad Street Review...
