by Kile Smith | Jun 5, 2011 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music
3. That wanton, smiling boy That wanton, smiling boy, how true he aims his shafts! The wound he deals has no broad front, but eats its way deep into the bone. His madness glides into the marrow; with creeping fire he ravages the veins. His arrows strike the lowest...
by Kile Smith | May 30, 2011 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music
2. Sport, youth Sport, youth, ring out your songs. —Medea Along with you a troop of Bacchanals in Edonian dance beat the ground, now on the peak of Mount Pangaeus, now on the top of Thracian Pindus; now from among the women of Cadmus comes a maenad, impious comrade of...
by Kile Smith | May 23, 2011 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music, Spirituality
1. The gates have sounded The gates have sounded, and he himself, with none to guide and sightless, gropes his way. —Oedipus In whose kingdom shall you die? —Troades This is the text that jumped out at me first; from the moment I saw it I never wavered from having it...
by Kile Smith | May 19, 2011 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music, Spirituality
The Waking Sun is my attempt to understand Stoicism. When Donald Nally first asked me to participate in The Crossing’s Seneca project, my first thought was No. I have often wondered why a non-Christian, say, would bother composing a piece with Christian themes,...
by Kile Smith | May 14, 2011 | Choral music, new music
Finished a couple of weeks ago, actually. The performance, with The Crossing and Tempesta di Mare, is June 18th, and although I’ve been working on it for over a year, it’s been off and on, with other, smaller works getting attention in between. But once I...
