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...
by Kile Smith | Jan 24, 2018 | Broad Street Review
[First published 23 Jan 2018 as “Life is a dream” by the Broad Street Review and reprinted by permission.] The two lanes merged as I slipped past the slower car to my right. Two other cars ducked in behind me. We were approaching a one-lane bridge, thin and high. The...
by Kile Smith | Dec 20, 2017 | Broad Street Review
First published in Broad Street Review 19 Dec 2017 as “Where N. Broad Meets the North Pole.” Beneath the railroad bridge that spans Broad Street just north of Glenwood, I was waiting for a Christmas tree, and so, I was waiting for Christmas, since Christmas doesn’t...
by Kile Smith | Nov 29, 2017 | Broad Street Review, Choral music, Music Composition
[First published in Broad Street Review 28 Nov 2017 and reprinted by permission.] It was 2015 and I was staring up at another deadline. The art-song group Lyric Fest, with whom I was enjoying a season as their first resident composer, had asked me to write a work for...
by Kile Smith | Oct 3, 2017 | Broad Street Review
First published in Broad Street Review 1 Oct 2017 as Following a road to “home.” In the few days and in the half-dozen times we had traveled the road from Hartenstein to Zwickau, he only now mentioned it. “I have always admired that single-standing tree,”...
