Thomas Lloyd | Kile Smith • composer

Thomas Lloyd's Bonhoeffer

by Kile Smith | Mar 16, 2013 | Choral music, New Compositions

[First published 16 Mar 2013 in the Broad Street Review and reprinted with permission.] Because Donald Nally and The Crossing have performed my music, anything favorable I write about them might be read as biased. But I wanted to describe the effect of Thomas Lloyd’s...

Lyric Fest, On Zacheus

by Kile Smith | Oct 16, 2012 | American music, Art songs, new music, Vocal music

What a program Sunday afternoon! Lyric Fest’s “Old City—New Song II” at The Academy of Vocal Arts was a straight-up no-foolin’ art song recital, a heliotrope bouquet of tunes brand-new, kind of new, and new. They were all 20th- and 21st-century...

Response to St. John Passion in Broad Street Review

by Kile Smith | Apr 30, 2012 | Baroque music, Choral music, church music, Classical music

Thomas Lloyd agrees and disagrees a bit with me in the Letters section of the Broad Street Review. We corresponded quite a bit on this, after my article (itself a response) on Bach, the St. John Passion, and the charge of anti-Semitism. Our emails drifted into the...

Vespers in Choral Journal

by Kile Smith | Feb 7, 2010 | CD Reviews, Choral music, church music, Spirituality

A very thoughtful essay by Thomas Lloyd appears in the February 2010 Choral Journal. It casts an eye on David Lang’s Pulitzer-winning the little match girl passion, Phil Kline’s John the Revelator, and my Vespers. Here’s a bit of it: These three premiere recordings of...

Now Ys the Tyme of Crystymas

by Kile Smith | Dec 4, 2009 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music

I can think of just two works that I have written with no performance in mind. Now ys the tyme of Crystymas is one of them. I was looking for a Christmas card. Back then (this was in 1997), the Free Library ran a gift shop just off the lobby, and in a display of...

News

7 Jan. “How Fair the Bright and Morning Star” (Wie schön leuchtet) from Vespers. St. Mary’s Episcopal, Richmond, VA, Ryan Tibbetts

27 Jan. Jubilate Deo, for string orchestra. Carroll County (MD) All-County Orchestra, Sheldon Bair

20 Jan. Red-tail and Hummingbird (Quintet version). Philadelphia Brass. Lansdale Community Concerts, North Penn High School, Lansdale, PA. Weather cancellation

3 Mar. Come, Ye Sinners (2-pt, org). Martin Luther Chapel, Pennsauken, NJ, Jacqueline Smith

3 Mar. Franklinville-Schwarzwald Männerchor Sängergruß. Evening of Song, Cannstatter Volksfest-Verein, Philadelphia

10 Mar. God So Loved the World (2-pt, org). Martin Luther Chapel, Pennsauken, NJ, Jacqueline Smith

17 Mar. O Thou Who Camest From Above. Westminster Presbyterian, Lancaster, PA, Floyd Rawleigh

31 Mar. Alleluia. First and Central Presbyterian, Wilmington, DE, David Schelat

31 Mar. Behold, the Best, the Greatest Gift. Martin Luther Chapel, Pennsauken, NJ, Jacqueline Smith

31 Mar. Sing, Choirs of New Jerusalem. Grace First Presbyterian, Long Beach, CA, Stan DeWitt

31 Mar. Sing, Choirs of New Jerusalem. Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Daniel Spratlan

31 Mar. Sing, Choirs of New Jerusalem. St. Mary’s Episcopal, Richmond, VA, Ryan Tibbetts

31 Mar. Sing, Choirs of New Jerusalem. Wayne Presbyterian, Wayne, PA, John Grecia

11 Apr. PREMIERE. I Love You Truly from Wireless. Chor Leoni, Erick Lichte

21 Apr. My Shepherd Will Supply My Need, premiere of 2-pt, org version. Martin Luther Chapel, Pennsauken, NJ, Jacqueline Smith

10 May. PREMIERE. Wireless. Chor Leoni, Erick Lichte

11 May. Wireless. Chor Leoni, Erick Lichte

12–14 May. Wireless. Recording. Chor Leoni, Erick Lichte

27 Jun. Jerusalem, from The Arc in the Sky. The Crossing, Donald Nally, Month of Moderns 2, Awbury Arboretum, Germantown, Philadelphia

6 Jul. “Why Did They All Shout?” from The Arc in the Sky, Reading Bach Choir, Daniel Mahoney, Caversham, Reading, Great Britain

11 Jul. PREMIERE Arise, O Lord, Psalm 132 for SATB, org, 10′. Psalm Festival of the 2024 Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod Institute for Liturgy, Preaching and Church Music, Seward, Nebraska, the Bellevue Singers and organist Jacob Weber, conducted by A.J. Reimer.

28 Feb. PREMIERE. New 15′ Work. Choir and organ, on the life of St. Peter. Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Michael Plagerman

22 Mar. PREMIERE. New 12′ Work. Sylvan Viol Consort, Variant Six. Market Street Music, Wilmington, DE

12 Apr. PREMIERE. New 20′ Work. The Choristers with orchestra, Lansdale, PA, David Spitko

Recent CDs

The Bremen Town Musicians. English Symphony Orchestra, Gemma Whelan, narrator, Kenneth Woods, conductor. Fiddles, Forests, and Fowl Fables.

The Arc in the Sky. The Crossing. 2020 Grammy nomination, Best Choral Performance

Canticle and Alleluia. Vocal Arts Ensemble. 2020 Grammy, Classical Producer of the Year, Blanton Alspaugh

In This Blue Room, other songs. Lyric Fest

A Child’s Afternoon. Fantasmagoria. Anna K. Meyer, flute, & Erik Meyer, organ

The Nobility of Women. Mélomanie

The Stars Shine, from The Consolation of Apollo. The Same Stream

Vespers. Piffaro, the Renaissance Band, and The Crossing

Where Flames a Word. The Crossing

Where Flames a Word. Voces Tallinn. 2020 Estonian Recording of the Year

Where Flames a Word. Khorikos

Where Flames a Word. Chicago Chamber Choir

Selected publications

The Star-Spangled Banner. SATB, piano, opt. cello, 5’30”. Hal Leonard

Alleluia. SATB, 6′. Hal Leonard

The Consolation of Apollo. SATB, perc, 35′. MusicSpoke

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day. SATB, bells, 3′. Hal Leonard

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. SATB, org, 3′. Concordia.