by Kile Smith | May 16, 2011 | Broad Street Review, Classical music, Composition, Music Composition
First published in the Broad Street Review, 8 Feb 2011. Slightly edited since. All my BSR articles are here. I had no idea what was happening. The saxophone caterwauled ridiculously, and the piano seemed to chatter away at some other piece. I could discern no melody...
by Kile Smith | Dec 3, 2010 | Composition, new music, Vocal music
A mention in This Week at Pytheas: David Patrick Stearns of the Philadelphia Inquirer called Kile Smith’s Vespers “breathtaking” and “ecstatically beautiful,” adding that “few have Smith’s lyrical immediacy and ability to find...
by Kile Smith | Nov 15, 2010 | Composition, Radio
A month ago I was honored to be the recipient of the Gallery of Success award from Temple University’s Boyer College of Music. It’s ”given annually to a graduate of each of the university’s schools and colleges, noting the success and distinction of Temple alumni.” I...
by Kile Smith | Sep 12, 2010 | Baroque music, Composition, Pop Music
[A revised version of this, without musical examples, published in Broad Street Review 20 Mar 2012 as “Between Bach and ‘O-o-h Child'”] One of the best pop songs ever produced, “O-o-h Child,” from 1970, is #392 in Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs...
by Kile Smith | Mar 1, 2009 | CDs, Composition, new music, Radio, WRTI
Walked into WRTI on Saturday to tape a few more Now is the Time shows, and Mark Pinto was there holding down the fort, cataloging CDs during the Rigoletto broadcast and preparing for his post-opera airtime. “Hey, I’ve programmed your cello spirituals on New Releases,”...
by Kile Smith | Jan 19, 2009 | Choral music, church music, Composition, liturgical music, Lutheran, Music Composition, New Compositions
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Abington crops up in the calendar here and previous years a good bit and that’s because it’s my church, Jackie is the Director of Music, and I volunteer, or am sometimes requested by same Director, to produce music for various services....
