by Kile Smith | Nov 5, 2016 | Fleisher Collection, WRTI
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, November 5th, 5-6 pm: The Star-Spangled Banner: Music (c.1773) by John Stafford Smith (1750-1836); words by Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) Percy Grainger (1882-1961): Spoon River (1919) Grainger: Mock Morris (1910)...
by Kile Smith | Sep 12, 2012 | Classical music, Composition, evolution, Pop Music
[This article republished with permission from the Broad Street Review.] And I could say Oo oo oo… Most of my recent case against the evolution of music concerned itself with the mechanics of DarwinTunes, the program touted as making composers unnecessary. (See...
by Kile Smith | Nov 16, 2011 | Chamber Music, Dance Music, new music
This Broad Land, my work for soprano saxophone and piano, will be featured in three performances Thursday to Saturday, Nov 17-19, by The Ursinus College Dance Company. This will explain its relation to Lincoln, Clapton, and Puccini, I think. New works from Ursinus...
by Kile Smith | Jul 4, 2010 | Classical music, New Compositions, new music
This started as another piece with another title. Ursinus College asked me to compose a short work honoring President John Strassburger on his retirement, and the key to the piece came from his own writings. In his essay on Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, he...