by Kile Smith | Mar 12, 2013 | Chamber Music, Early Music, new music
Michael Caruso reviews the Orchestra 2001/Piffaro concert in which Red-tail and Hummingbird was played twice, adding a beautiful word about Vespers. The two most interesting portions of the program came on either side of its intermission. Prior to the interval,...
by Kile Smith | Mar 4, 2013 | American music, Anthem, Choral music, church music, Early Music, hymn
Written and published years ago, Come, Ye Sinners harks back to the music I’ve always harked back to, early American hymnody. The text is by the 18th-century Englishman Joseph Hart, the tune by the 19th-century American Benjamin Franklin White, one of the...
by Kile Smith | Feb 27, 2013 | Chamber Music, Early Music, New Compositions, new music
“The second premiere presented the results of the creative process that composer Kile Smith has described in four BSR essays. (Click here.) As Smith has explained in his essays, Red-tail and Hummingbird depicts an encounter between a hawk and an angry...
by Kile Smith | Feb 25, 2013 | Brass Quintet, Chamber Music, Early Music, New Compositions, new music
My deepest thanks to Orchestra 2001 and Piffaro, the Renaissance Band for their joint concerts this past weekend, which included the premiere performances of Red-tail and Hummingbird. What warm and happy occasions they were! Piffaro ended the first half with their...
by Kile Smith | Feb 22, 2013 | Brass Quintet, Chamber Music, Early Music, New Compositions, new music
Brass quintet version performed by the Philadelphia Brass Red-tail and Hummingbird. For various ensembles of 5 or 6 players. 6′ Commissioned by Orchestra 2001 and Piffaro, the Renaissance Band for joint concerts on February 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, 2013, for a...
by Kile Smith | Feb 20, 2013 | Chamber Music, Early Music, New Compositions, new music
[First published 19 Feb 2013 in the Broad Street Review and reprinted with permission. This is the last of the 4-part series; read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here.] I compose almost exclusively in modes, and I mention this bit of shoptalk only to hint...
