by Kile Smith | Mar 16, 2023 | Choral music, new music
Northland. SATB choir, piano, 14′. Text by Claude McKay (1890-1948). Commissioned and premiered by the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Joshua Habermann, Artistic Director, July 23rd, 2023. The Santa Fe Desert Chorale asked me for a work addressing immigration, and this...
by Kile Smith | Mar 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Agincourt Hymn. attr. John Dunstable, arr. Kile Smith (1985, 2023). Brass Quintet, organ, 4′. Commissioned by the Westminster Brass. Version for Brass Trio and Organ arranged for the Service of Installation of Arnold L. Tiemeyer as President of the Lutheran Home...
by Kile Smith | Mar 1, 2023 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify Calling on spring with a trio of pieces, two from Americans Roy Harris and Mary Howe, and one from a German, Joachim Raff. Roy Harris (1898–1979). Kentucky Spring (1949) Mary Howe (1882–1964). Spring Pastorale (1936) Joachim Raff...
by Kile Smith | Feb 1, 2023 | Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Exactly 100 years have passed, new ideas have come and gone, waves of new music have crashed and receded, yet Sibelius and his church modes in 1923 seem more and more to be something we never considered: revolutionary. Jean Sibelius (1865–1957). Symphony No. 6 (1923)...
by Kile Smith | Jan 11, 2023 | Choral music, liturgical music, new music, Spirituality
In the Midst of Life. 2023. SATB a cappella, 15′. Text from the Book of Common Prayer. Commissioned by the William Ferris Chorale, Christopher Windle, Artistic and Music Director. Premiered by them 5 May 2023, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Chicago, and 7 May...
by Kile Smith | Jan 4, 2023 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
On our New Year’s show, another example of the power of concert music to constantly reinvent itself as it reaches out to, and accepts, every kind of music into its orbit. Gunther Schuller (1925–2015). Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee (1959) William Russo...
by Kile Smith | Dec 17, 2022 | Pop Music
Christmas and Magic. A song, 4′. Words by Roy Powell, music by Kile Smith. Premiere of duet version, Evangelia Leontis, soprano, Megan Roth, mezzo-soprano, Julia Carey, piano, Calliope’s Call, Boston, 2 Dec 2022. Premiere of “band” version, Calesta...
