by Kile Smith | Jul 3, 2019 | new music, Organ music
Ballad and March for Organ. 5′. Premiered 19 Aug 2017, Margaret Harper, Central Congregation Church, Newburyport, MA, Newburyport Summer Music Festival. Transcribed for solo organ from Plain Truths, a song cycle for baritone and string quartet or piano. “Annie...
by Kile Smith | Jul 9, 2013 | Art songs, new music, Vocal music
Jeremy Galyon is an ear-opening bass/baritone who premiered my Plain Truths in 2011 at the Newburyport Summer Music Festival. This past Sunday he sang three songs from the cycle at the Songs on a Summer Afternoon series in Ocean Grove, N.J. He astonished me (again)...
by Kile Smith | Jun 13, 2013 | Art songs, new music, Vocal music
I’m delighted that Jeremy Galyon, the wonderful bass/baritone who premiered my Plain Truths, will reprise some of it Sunday July 7th at the Ocean Grove Chamber Music Series in Ocean Grove, N.J. Jeremy’s taking the song cycle from the coastal town of...
by Kile Smith | May 9, 2013 | Art songs, new music, Vocal music
In preparation for a sequel to Plain Truths, my song cycle for baritone and string quartet, I’ve worked an optional chorus into the last song of the original cycle (first page to the left, MIDI audio excerpt below). “Spirit of Freedom” is the text by...
by Kile Smith | Aug 23, 2011 | Art songs, Chamber Music, new music, Vocal music
Plain Truths, just premiered at the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival, picks up a nice review in The Boston Musical Intelligencer, the journal and blog of the classical music scene in Boston. Sudeep Agarwala likes the “early-American sound-world” of the...
