by Kile Smith | Jul 11, 2011 | Choral music, new music
Seven members of Tempesta di Mare Baroque Orchestra accompanied The Crossing under Nally’s direction in a work that begins rhythmically energetically and harmonically astringently but that little by little over the course of its six movements leaves its dissonances...
by Kile Smith | Jun 13, 2011 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music
6. While on such beauty the lover gazes While on such beauty the lover gazes, her cheeks suddenly glow with rosy blush. Snowy wool turns crimson thus when bathed in purple flood; so gleams the waking sun when the shepherd, wet with the dew of the dawn of the day,...
by Kile Smith | Jun 11, 2011 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music
5. A king is he A king is he who has no fear; a king is he who naught desires. Such kingdom on himself each man bestows. —Thyestes If you can have a fuguing tune without the fuguing part, “A king is he” is that piece. I started to write the imitative...
by Kile Smith | Jun 9, 2011 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music
4. Weary, with empty throat, stands Tantalus Weary, with empty throat, stands Tantalus; above his guilty head hangs plenteous food; on either side, with laden boughs, a tree leans over him and, bending and trembling beneath its weight of fruit, makes sport with his...
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...
