by Kile Smith | Jun 3, 2024 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Orchestral Music, Podcast
Kile Smith (b. 1956). Symphony: Lumen ad revelationem (2002) Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify For my final Fleisher Discoveries podcast, my Symphony. I’ve gotten so busy with composing that, as much as I love the podcast, I had to clear the decks. The Symphony...
by Kile Smith | May 13, 2024 | Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897). Academic Festival Overture (1880) Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify Brahms had already turned down one honorary doctorate, but when another one was proffered, a good friend talked him into accepting—but he had to write a concert piece...
by Kile Smith | Apr 4, 2024 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971). Symphony of Psalms (1930) Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify As success followed success, especially in the three ballets he wrote for the impresario Sergei Diaghilev, Stravinsky lived the life of a world-famous composer and pianist....
by Kile Smith | Mar 6, 2024 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Marianne Martines (1744–1812). Psalm 51 (1768) Martines. Symphony in C (1770) Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify Metastasio, the leading playwright of the age, introduced her to everyone. She performed for the empress. She knew Mozart. And Haydn, who gave her...
by Kile Smith | Feb 1, 2024 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries
George Gershwin (1898–1937). Rhapsody in Blue (1924) Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify George Gershwin is playing billiards and in walks brother Ira with a newspaper which says that George is writing a jazz concerto for a concert six weeks away. This was news to...
by Kile Smith | Feb 1, 2024 | Broad Street Review, Photography
First published in the Broad Street Review 27 Nov 2023, and reprinted here by permission. It’s been a good year for bedstraw. Its narrow leaves radiate out in evenly spaced fans along its vine; delicate white flowers pop out at the end: it’s a sparkler of a weed. It...
by Kile Smith | Nov 29, 2023 | Christmas song, Pop song
Christmas and Magic. 4′. 2023. https://kilesmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Christmas-and-Magic-720.mp4 This is the first pop song I’ve composed. I have certainly skirted the area of pop, and of jazz, in some works, such as April Showers, In This Blue...