by Kile Smith | Feb 26, 2019 | Broad Street Review
[Published 26 Feb 2019 in the Broad Street Review and reprinted here by permission.] Scene 1 The only way I was leaving this house was feet-first. Jackie didn’t like that kind of talk, but I’d resolved that I was finished with moving: I wanted to get through life...
by Kile Smith | Dec 23, 2018 | Broad Street Review, Composition
[First published in Broad Street Review, 23 Dec 2018. Reprinted by permission.] Sports, sports numbers, and sports records consumed the attention of my youth, I’ll admit. If I’d known I’d be going into music in a few years, I would’ve applied myself more assiduously...
by Kile Smith | Oct 24, 2018 | Broad Street Review
[First published in Broad Street Review 23 Oct 2018, and reprinted here by permission.] I wasn’t prepared for the reaction—my reaction, that is. This was the second time our German men’s choir would sing the national anthem at the Phillies. I wrote about it two years...
by Kile Smith | Jul 11, 2018 | Broad Street Review
[Published 10 July 2018 in the Broad Street Review and reprinted here with permission.] Abington Hospital’s emergency entrance is across Old York Road from Señor Salsa, which is not a crack at Señor Salsa. I note it only because this is the first time I’ve looked...
by Kile Smith | May 8, 2018 | Broad Street Review
[First published in Broad Street Review 7 May 2018, and reprinted here with permission.] Movement titles “I Got the Musicopia Blues” and “Sneaking Past Your Parents’ Bedroom at 3 AM” give a taste of the humorous, accessible slant of Mark Laycock’s “Musicopia”...
by Kile Smith | Mar 7, 2018 | Broad Street Review, Chamber Music, Fleisher Collection, new music
A tune came to me one morning as I walked down the hallway, about to turn the 180 degrees into the stairwell leading up to the third floor. That’s where I compose. I mention the tune coming to me because it hardly ever happens. It may happen to other composers, but...
