by Kile Smith | Nov 20, 2013 | Broad Street Review, Composition
[First published in the Broad Street Review, 19 Nov 2013, as “It’s all in the timing.”] Wile E. Coyote falling off a cliff isn’t funny. Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff, stopping in mid-air, looking down, looking at you, and then falling—now,...
by Kile Smith | Jul 11, 2013 | Composition
Me: Just spent the last two hours putting in string phrasings. She: [rolls eyes] How boring. Me: Really the only reason you could never be a composer. It’s too boring. She: Well, I could never think up any music. Me: Pff, happens all the time…. Just spent...
by Kile Smith | Dec 19, 2012 | Composition, Music Composition, New Compositions, Orchestral Music, String Orchestra
Just finished a new piece. Well, it’s an old piece that I can’t seem to leave alone. For a performance in the spring of 2013, it’s my third take on Three Dances. That’s me, to the left, after hitting the double bar. Three Dances was originally...
by Kile Smith | Nov 20, 2012 | Broad Street Review, Classical music, Composition, hymn, Piano music
[Reprinted with permission from the Broad Street Review under “Advice for aspiring composers: Stop all that strolling, and just stand still”] It looked like a black sparrow, except that it was slightly larger than a sparrow, and also there’s no such thing...
by Kile Smith | Oct 31, 2012 | Classical music, Composition, Music Composition
A correspondent takes my article on Beethoven, Napoleon, et al. and runs with it, deftly, in the Letters section of the Broad Street Review.
