by Kile Smith | Jun 2, 2014 | Choral music, new music
SSAA with piano or string quartet, 7′. Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Commissioned by the Pennsylvania Girlchoir, Vincent Metallo, music director, for its Tenth Anniversary. Premiered 1 June 2014, the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. I...
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...
by Kile Smith | May 18, 2010 | Choral music
This weekend, May 20–23, 2010, the Association of Canadian Choral Communities and the Saskatchewan Choral Federation are sponsoring Podium 2010: Experience the Harmony: L’harmonie, une expérience à vivre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Many of Canada’s choral conductors,...
by Kile Smith | Nov 14, 2009 | New Compositions, Radio, WRTI
Awfully nice of WRTI to point out Vespers and Two Laudate Psalms in a notice on the bottom of their homepage. They refer to the two radio shows, and if you follow the jump, you’ll find links to things like the story behind the theme music for Now is the Time. There is...
by Kile Smith | Nov 4, 2009 | Choral music, New Compositions
From Tom Purdom’s review of Two Laudate Psalms: Smith 3-0 Give Kile Smith a hat trick. This composer’s setting of two praise psalms—#113 and 150, for numbers geeks—continued a streak that includes the piece for horn and orchestra that the Classical Symphony debuted...
