Kile Smith

Art Daniels, 1928–2021

by Kile Smith | Mar 5, 2021 | Fleisher Collection

The Fleisher Collection employed two full-time music copyists when I, a part-time copyist while working on my master’s in composition, started there in 1981. Sadie Morgan, whom I replaced in 1983 when she retired, was one. Art Daniels was the other. We sat next...

Fleisher Discoveries: Fleisher Brings Peru to Washington

by Kile Smith | Mar 2, 2021 | Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Orchestral Music

Celso Garrido-Lecca (b. 1926). Symphony No. 1 (1960) Listen on Soundcloud and Spotify! Hi, and welcome to Fleisher Discoveries! I’m Kile Smith. Fleisher Discoveries is a podcast from the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music and the Free Library of...

April Showers

by Kile Smith | Feb 19, 2021 | Art songs, new music, Vocal music

April Showers. A song cycle for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, and piano. 17′. Commissioned for Conspirare and Craig Hella Johnson. Online premiere 23 April 2021 by soprano Stefanie Moore, mezzo-soprano Laura Mercado-Wright, tenor Dann Coakwell,...

Fleisher Discoveries: Alfredo Casella, Seeing the New in the Old

by Kile Smith | Feb 6, 2021 | Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast

Alfredo Casella (1883–1947). Concerto for Strings, Piano, Timpani, and Percussion (1943) Primo tempo: Allegro aliquanto pesante Sarabanda Finale: Allegro molto vivace Listen on Soundcloud and Spotify! Hi, and this is Fleisher Discoveries! I’m Kile Smith. Fleisher...

My first photography exhibition

by Kile Smith | Feb 5, 2021 | Photography

Through February and March, 2021, 16 of my photographs will hang on the walls of the Broad Street Grind, the wonderful coffee house in Souderton, Pa. Jackie and I have known Phillip Shade, the Grind’s owner, since college. Jackie played for Phil and...

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News

Feb–Mar. Kile Smith Photography Exhibit, The Broad Street Grind, Souderton, Pa.

1 Feb. Fleisher Discoveries: Alfredo Casella, Seeing the New in the Old

3 Feb. The Bremen Town Musicians. Caroline Eva Chin, Bowling Green State University, 8

6 Feb. Chorale Fantasias from Vespers. Premiere, Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra, Allan R. Scott

6 Feb. Host, Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra livestream

12 Feb. Livestream discussion with Variant 6, Piffaro about Ave Maris Stella

13 Feb. A Child’s Afternoon. Classical New Releases, Mark Pinto, WRTI-FM, Philadelphia

15 Feb. Completed April Showers

22 Feb. The Bremen Town Musicians. Juliette Kang, vn, Priscilla Lee, vc, Charlotte Blake Alston, narr. Philadelphia Orchestra Our City, Your Orchestra video premiere

23 Feb. A Child’s Afternoon. Anna Meyer, fl, Erik Meyer, org, Abington Presbyterian Church livestream, noon

24 Feb. A Child’s Afternoon. Anna Meyer, fl, Erik Meyer, org, WQLN Erie, PA

1 Mar. Fleisher Discoveries: Fleisher Brings Peru to Washington

Recent CDs

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

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.