by Kile Smith | Oct 23, 2017 | Brass Music, Chamber Music, Early Music, new music
Fanfare on Ein feste Burg. Two versions. 1’30” A. For 7 Renaissance instruments: 2 Soprano Shawms, Alto Shawm, 2 Sackbuts, Quartbass Dulcian, large Tabor B. Brass Quintet with optional large Drum Commissioned and Premiered 20 Oct 2017 by Piffaro, the...
by Kile Smith | Jan 4, 2014 | Broad Street Review, Choral music, Early Music, new music
[First published in the Broad Street Review, 2 Jan 2014, as “The sound of the music”] Having composed more than a few works, totaling a couple hours of music, for early instruments—including Vespers (for Renaissance instruments), The Nobility of...
by Kile Smith | Jan 2, 2014 | Early Music
In the Smith house we couldn’t be prouder of Priscilla, just written up in the Philadelphia Inquirer by David Patrick Stearns. He saw the Mark Rylance productions on Broadway of Richard III and Twelfth Night, in which Priscilla’s been playing since...
by Kile Smith | May 17, 2013 | Dance Music, Early Music, New Compositions, new music, Orchestral Music, String Orchestra
I could hardly have been happier at the premiere of The Red Book of Montserrat last night at the Perelman Theater in the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia. This newest string orchestra work is a 20-minute suite commissioned by the Philadelphia Sinfonia, Gary White, music...
by Kile Smith | May 5, 2013 | Dance Music, Early Music, New Compositions, new music, Orchestral Music, String Orchestra
The Red Book of Montserrat is a suite for string orchestra commissioned by the Philadelphia Sinfonia, the excellent youth orchestra Gary White directs. It sets five of the ten songs from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, the 14th-century book of music and texts from...
by Kile Smith | May 1, 2013 | Classical music, Early Music
[First published in the Broad Street Review, 30 April 2013, under the title The great debate: Sackbut or trombone?] When all you have is a hammer, it’s said, everything starts to look like a nail. The job of constructing an answer to the early/modern instrument...
