by Kile Smith | Mar 21, 2015 | Art songs, Jazz, new music, Vocal music
In the Philadelphia Inquirer, David Patrick Stearns reviewed the first of the premiere concerts of In This Blue Room—the cycle setting four poets inspired by the batik paintings of Laura Pritchard—and in the Broad Street Review, Tom Purdom reviewed the second....
by Kile Smith | Feb 27, 2013 | Chamber Music, Early Music, New Compositions, new music
“The second premiere presented the results of the creative process that composer Kile Smith has described in four BSR essays. (Click here.) As Smith has explained in his essays, Red-tail and Hummingbird depicts an encounter between a hawk and an angry...
by Kile Smith | Sep 27, 2012 | Chamber Music, Early Music, New Compositions, new music
My upcoming Orchestra 2001 commission, Red-tail and Hummingbird, has made the highlight reel of concerts Tom Purdom is anticipating in Philadelphia’s 2012-13 concert season, which he writes up in the Broad Street Review. I’m there with Hillary Hahn,...
by Kile Smith | Jan 11, 2012 | Choral music, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music, Spirituality
Tom Purdom likes Vespers even more the second time around, in the Broad Street Review. Giving well-deserved raves to all the musicians for a performance that “actually exceeded” the premiere, he says, “the real basis of its success was the quality of...
by Kile Smith | Jul 6, 2011 | Choral music, new music
Tom Purdom’s review is here. He likes The Waking Sun a lot, although he thinks that my handling of Seneca doesn’t reflect as integrated a worldview as my recent works on Christian themes (Exsultet, Vespers, and Two Laudate Psalms). But it is inventive and...