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Thirty Variations on a Theme of Bartók

by Kile Smith | Jan 14, 2022 | New Compositions, new music, Piano music, Solo

 Beginning at 7:24, the premiere of Thirty Variations on a Theme of Bartók by Kile Smith, Milena Urban, piano, Community Music School of Collegeville, 23 Apr 2022. Thirty Variations on a Theme of Bartók. For piano. 35′. Commissioned by the Community Music...

Fleisher Discoveries: George Rochberg—That Beauty Is Not Dead

by Kile Smith | Dec 31, 2021 | American music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Orchestral Music, Podcast

It’s debatable how much power 12-tone music held over classical music in the 20th century, but power it certainly had. Then an inside man dropped a bombshell. A look at George Rochberg. George Rochberg (1918–2005). Symphony No. 1 (1949–57) Listen on SoundCloud Listen...

Fleisher Discoveries: Chou Wen-chung and the Fallen Petals

by Kile Smith | Dec 1, 2021 | Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Orchestral Music

On the run for most of his young life, a composer finds a home in America, creates exquisite works of ineffable beauty, and becomes a lasting influence as “the godfather of Chinese contemporary music.” Chou Wen-chung (1923–2019). And the Fallen Petals (1955) Listen on...

Best Choral Performance GRAMMY nom for The Singing Guitar

by Kile Smith | Nov 23, 2021 | Uncategorized

The Singing Guitar grabs a 2022 Best Choral Performance GRAMMY nomination for Conspirare! Along with music by Nico Muhly, Reena Esmail, and Craig Hella Johnson, who created all this in love, it’s an honor for my work The Dawn’s Early Light to be included....

Intrada, for Six Horns

by Kile Smith | Nov 15, 2021 | Brass Music, Chamber Music, New Compositions, new music

Intrada, for Six Horns. 2’45”. For the Curtis Institute of Music Horn Studio. Premiered 1 Dec 2021, the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia. Composed spring 2021 at the request of Jeffrey Lang and Jennifer Montone, who teach horn at Curtis and who...

Fleisher Discoveries: Robert Bernat, In Memoriam JFK

by Kile Smith | Nov 2, 2021 | American music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast

The world premiere of a piece remembering a tragic day many Novembers ago, and the unlikely but wise choice of its composer. Robert Bernat (1931–1994). In Memoriam John F. Kennedy, Passacaglia for Orchestra (1966) Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify Hi everybody,...

Fleisher Discoveries: Roger Goeb, Only in America

by Kile Smith | Oct 1, 2021 | American music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast

Iowa, Paris, Russian and Ukrainian and German Americans, New York City, a Swiss watch company, a radio station, a library, salvaged reel-to-reel tapes, and a dandy piece for cello and strings: Only in America. Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify Roger Goeb...
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At a glance

3 Apr. God So Loved the World. Grace First Presbyterian, Stan DeWitt, Long Beach, CA

9 Apr. Finished revision of Mazurka for guitar

22 Apr. Where the Mind Is Without Fear. Premiere. University of New Mexico Concert Choir, David Edmonds

23 Apr. Thirty Variations on a Theme of Bartók. Premiere. Milena Urban, piano, Community Music School 30th Anniversary, Trappe, PA

24 Apr. Mazurka. Premiere. Tom Clippinger, Guitar International Salon, Los Angeles

29 Apr. Kile Smith and The Waking Sun, presentation by James Higgs, DMA student, Choral Literature, University of Arizona

May. Kile Smith and April Showers, paper by Anthony Zogaib, History of Western Music, Case Western Reserve University

12 May. I Want to Write a Book of Praise from The Arc in the Sky. Chor Leoni and The Leonids, Erick Lichte. Vancouver, BC, Canada

12 May. The Consolation of Apollo. Westminster Choir College, James Jordan

13 May. I Want to Write a Book of Praise from The Arc in the Sky. Chor Leoni and The Leonids, Erick Lichte. Vancouver, BC, Canada

14 May. You Are Most Welcome. Nexus Vocal Ensemble, Lennie Cottrell, Portland OR

22 May. New arrangements for treble voices and harp of Psalm 113 from Vespers, and Monstra te essem matrem from Ave Maris Stella. iSing Girlchoir, Jennah Delp. Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph San Jose CA, 4:00

22 May. New arrangements for treble voices and harp of Psalm 113 from Vespers, and Monstra te essem matrem from Ave Maris Stella. iSing Girlchoir, Jennah Delp. Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph San Jose CA, 6:30

28 May. Sometimes It Happens So. Presentation by Nell Flanders and Kile Smith, Bryn Mawr College

5 Jun. Grandmother’s Garden. Gleeksman-Kohn Children’s Choir, Settlement Music School, Rae Ann Anderson. First United Methodist, Germantown, Philadelphia

11 Jun. A Child’s Afternoon. Anna Meyer, flute, Erik Meyer, organ. The 10th Annual Kimmel Center Organ Day, American Guild of Organists—Philadelphia Chapter

Recent CDs

The Bremen Town Musicians. English Symphony Orchestra, Gemma Whelan, narrator, Kenneth Woods, conductor. Fiddles, Forests, and Fowl Fables.

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

The Star-Spangled Banner. SATB, piano, opt. cello, 5’30”. Hal Leonard

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.

From the blog

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  • Where the Mind Is Without Fear
  • Fleisher Discoveries: Igor Markevitch, Ukraine, and Icarus
  • Sometimes It Happens So
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