My CD Reviews | Kile Smith • composer

Mark Hagerty, Soliloquy

by Kile Smith | Mar 5, 2012 | CD Reviews, CDs, Classical music, Dance Music, My CD Reviews, new music, Radio, WRTI

My latest CD mini-review for WRTI, including podcast. You can read all my CD reviews here. Soliloquy: Music of Mark Hagerty Mark Hagerty’s music is smart and sneaky. Let’s start with sneaky. He doesn’t show off: his music is so nicely grounded that...

Musik Ekklesia: The Vanishing Nordic Chorale

by Kile Smith | Dec 13, 2011 | CD Reviews, CDs, Classical music, My CD Reviews, Radio, WRTI

My latest CD mini-review for WRTI, including podcast. You can read all my CD reviews here. Musik Ekklesia: The Vanishing Nordic Chorale It’s well past time to listen to historical instruments because they’re, well, historical. Or “informed,”...

Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, Harvest Home

by Kile Smith | Nov 2, 2011 | CD Reviews, CDs, Classical music, My CD Reviews, Radio, WRTI

My latest CD mini-review for WRTI, including podcast. You can read all my CD reviews here. Harvest Home: Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, Nashville Chamber Orchestra “Classical music” is not a single style, but an ever-widening variety. Because of this, classical audiences...

John Williams

by Kile Smith | Sep 3, 2011 | CD Reviews, CDs, Classical music, My CD Reviews, WRTI

My latest CD mini-review for WRTI, including podcast. You can read all my CD reviews here. John Williams: Greatest Hits 1969-1999 A lone violin plays a simple, haunting melody, and you think of the people: the many taken away, the few saved, and the one who saved the...

Hermann Baumann

by Kile Smith | Jul 3, 2011 | CD Reviews, CDs, Classical music, My CD Reviews, WRTI

My latest CD mini-review for WRTI, including podcast. You can read all my CD reviews here. Grande Messe de Saint Hubert. Hermann Baumann Hunting music for natural horns, valve horns, organ Hermann Baumann, horn soloist and conductor Folkwang Horn Ensemble, Deutsche...

Relache. Press Play

by Kile Smith | Apr 2, 2011 | CD Reviews, CDs, My CD Reviews, new music

My latest CD mini-review for the WRTI E-newsletter. You can read all my CD reviews here. Relache: Press Play Music of Mark Hagerty, Guy Klucevsek, Cynthia Folio Meyer Media Relache has been slipping the thin leading edge of new music into Philadelphia since 1979....

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At a glance

16 Feb. The Dawn’s Early Light. Charlotte Master Chorale, Kenney Potter, First UMC Charlotte NC

19 Feb. There’s a Land Beyond the River. Grace Presbyterian Long Beach CA, Stan DeWitt

22 Feb. Monstra te essem matrem (SSA, harp) from Ave Maris Stella. iSing Girlchoir, Jennah Delp, ACDA National Conference, Cincinnati

5 Mar. Canticle. Choral Arts Initiative, Brandon Elliott. West Coast premiere.

13 Mar. Nirakar, excerpts from the opera. Erica Schuller, Bella Voce. Woman’s Athletic Club Ballroom, Chicago

18 Mar. Susquehanna. Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra, Sheldon Bair, Bel Air, MD

25 Mar. The Bremen Town Musicians. New Saint Andrews College, David Erb

25 Mar. The Bremen Town Musicians. Harford Youth Orchestra, Brian Folus, Sheldon Bair, narrator, Bel Air, MD

28 Mar. The Three Graces. Oliver Talukder, oboe, Martina Adams, horn, Yoonsoo Yeo, cello, Marguerite Cox, double bass, Michelle Cann, piano, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia

23 Apr. The Bremen Town Musicians. Benedictine College, Brian Casey, Rachel Dannar, Narrator, Atchison, KS

23 Apr. Narrator, Casey at the Bat (Randol Alan Bass), Delaware Valley Wind Symphony, Colleen Sweetsir, Holland, PA

5 May. In the Midst of Life. William Ferris Chorale, Chicago, Christopher Windle. Premiere. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Chicago, 7:30

7 May. In the Midst of Life. William Ferris Chorale, Chicago, Christopher Windle. Premiere. Wicker Park Lutheran, Chicago, 3:30

20 May. The Bremen Town Musicians. Salt Lake Symphony, Robert Baldwin

8 Jul. The Arc in the Sky. Reading Bach Choir, Daniel Mahoney, Douai Abbey, Upper Woolhampton, England

23 Jul. Northland. Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Joshua Habermann. Premiere

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.