by Kile Smith | May 29, 2015 | Choral music, liturgical music, new music
“Vespers,” writes Sebastian Spreng in Miami Clasica, El Nuevo Herald (the Spanish edition of the Miami Herald), and Knight Arts, “astonishes the listener.” He praises Seraphic Fire and Piffaro, the Renaissance Band for “the tapestry masterfully woven by angelic...
by Kile Smith | May 27, 2015 | Broad Street Review
[First published in the Broad Street Review, May 26, 2015.] Many people wrote, many people spoke to me after my brother died. I learned how important it was to hear from people, to hear anything. Any word from a human being was important. That any word was helpful...
by Kile Smith | May 12, 2015 | Choral music, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music
Greg Stepanich writes in the Palm Beach ArtsPaper, May 10th 2015, on Saturday’s Vespers performance by Seraphic Fire and Piffaro, the third out of four concerts ending Seraphic’s 2015–15 season. In one of the most detailed and perceptive reviews of this...
by Kile Smith | May 7, 2015 | Choral music, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music
David Fleshler writes in the South Florida Classical Review of last night’s performance of Vespers by Seraphic Fire and Piffaro, The Renaissance Band. Describing “the unique tone of the Vespers by American composer Kile Smith,” he writes that...
by Kile Smith | May 4, 2015 | Choral music, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music
What a nice preview of the four Vespers concerts in and around Miami this week with Seraphic Fire and Piffaro, the Renaissance Band. I’m so excited to work again with Piffaro, and honored that Patrick Quigley and two-time Grammy nominee Seraphic Fire, an...
