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
Adieu, Adieu. An imaginary song. 2018, fl, cl, ehn, bn, va, db, vib, pno, 10′. Commissioned and premiered by Relâche in their 40th anniversary season, in memory of Romulus Franceschini. A tune came to me one morning as I walked down the hallway, about to turn...
