by Kile Smith | Jun 6, 2017 | Anthem, Choral music, church music
Score video O Thou Who Camest from Above. SATB, 4 ‘. Commissioned for the 90th Concert Season of the Greenville College Choir and Chamber Singers, Jeffrey S. Wilson, director. The tune is Hereford by Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876), the text is Leviticus...
by Kile Smith | Apr 17, 2016 | Anthem, Art songs, Choral music, church music, Spirituality
What a great three days I enjoyed in Illinois as the guest composer for the 32nd annual Greenville College Schoenhals Fine Arts Symposium. A Thursday night concert and a Friday morning college chapel performance of seven pieces wove around seven classes, a composer...
by Kile Smith | Feb 7, 2016 | Anthem, Choral music, church music
The Church of the Holy Trinity on Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia is presenting my anthems beginning Ash Wednesday, on each of the Sundays of Lent, and into Easter. I’m so pleased to be Composer in Residence there, and to work with John French and the...
by Kile Smith | Apr 27, 2015 | Anthem, Choral music, church music
I’m happy to announce the publication of my anthem O Come, O Come, Emmanuel by Concordia Publishing House. Here’s the link to the publisher’s page, with a PDF excerpt and a recording of it. My excessively elaborate notes on the piece, written up for...
by Kile Smith | Mar 7, 2015 | Anthem, Choral music, church music
I couldn’t be there, but my music could, thanks to The Crossing and MusicSpoke. The American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) National Conference just concluded in Salt Lake City, and was a huge success by all the reports I’m getting. And these reports...
by Kile Smith | Nov 25, 2014 | Anthem, Choral music, church music, new music
SATB setting of the complete Psalm 136, with the refrain “For his mercy endures forever.” Commissioned by Judi and Earl Reeder, in honor of their 50th wedding anniversary, for the choir of Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Abington, Pa., and...
