by Kile Smith | Sep 6, 2018 | Chamber Music, Children's Music, Organ music
A Child’s Afternoon. Two characteristic pieces for flute and organ, 9′. In two movements: (1) No one to play with, (2) Someone to play with. Commissioned by Anna Meyer. Premiered by Anna Meyer, flute, and Erik Meyer, organ, 4 Oct 2019, Christ Church,...
by Kile Smith | May 27, 2017 | Children's Music, Choral music, New Compositions, String Quartet
I Could See the Sky. For SATB, 2-part Treble Choir, Keyboard, optional String Quartet, 17 minutes (Treble Choir may be boys and/or girls or a few women) The editing process is usually severe. Many good things—music, text, both—are often left on the cutting room floor,...
by Kile Smith | Jun 10, 2016 | Children's Music, new music, Orchestral Music
Orchestrated for narrator and small orchestra, 2016, for the English Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Woods, conductor, and premiered 10 Jul 2016. 1111–1110-1perc-narrator-str. 8′ Original composed 2008. Violin, cello, narrator. From a story compiled by the Brothers...
by Kile Smith | Apr 6, 2016 | Children's Music, Choral music, New Compositions
Grandmother’s Garden. Text: Grandmother’s Garden, the children’s book by John Archambault. 2-part Children’s Choir, Piano, opt. C Instrument, 9′. See the entire score and hear the premiere at MusicSpoke. Commissioned by Settlement Music...
by Kile Smith | Dec 21, 2015 | Children's Music, Classical music, WRTI Arts Desk
[First published in WRTI’s Arts Desk, 21 December 2015.] A young mother wanted to sing to her children. She wrote poems based on a story by the Brothers Grimm and asked her brother to set them to music. He did, but then kept working with them, and in two years those...
by Kile Smith | Nov 18, 2015 | Broad Street Review, Children's Music, Choral music, new music
[First published in Broad Street Review, 17 Nov 2015; printed here by permission.] On 9/11, on that Tuesday in 2001, the first thing I did was to put up the American flag. I went into the coat closet, fetched it, went out on the porch, put the staff into the holder,...
