by Kile Smith | Oct 23, 2018 | Anthem, Brass Music, church music, hymn, Organ music
Of the Father’s Love Begotten. (Published by G.I.A. under the Westminster Choral Series.) SATB, Organ, Congregation, opt. Brass, Percussion (3 Horns, 3 Trumpets, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Suspended Cymbal). Text: Corde natus ex parentis, Aurelius Clemens...
by Kile Smith | Apr 20, 2016 | Broad Street Review, church music, hymn, Music Composition
[First published 19 April 2016 in the Broad Street Review, and reprinted here by permission.] My ten-year survey of traffic patterns on Broad Street — coinciding with Broad Street Review’s tenth anniversary — is now complete. Within a four-percent margin of error, I...
by Kile Smith | May 18, 2014 | Anthem, Choral music, church music, hymn
For the 150th anniversary of Emilie United Methodist Church in Levittown, Pa., I was commissioned for an anthem, sung this morning by their choir, led by Music Director Ryan Fleming. It’s SATB accompanied by either organ or piano. I’ve actually written out...
by Kile Smith | Apr 20, 2013 | Anthem, Choral music, church music, hymn, new music
A big thank-you to John French, Alan Morrison, and the combined Ursinus College Choir and Meistersingers for their work on my six anthems tonight at Ursinus College. What a beautiful concert! Even when some nice people entered Bomberger Hall late! Also on the program...
by Kile Smith | Apr 18, 2013 | Anthem, Choral music, church music, hymn, new music
I’m looking forward to hearing a whole slew of my anthems sung by the combined Ursinus College Choir and Meistersingers this Saturday, April 20th, 7:30 pm at Ursinus College. John French conducts, and Alan Morrison is the organist. I attended rehearsal last week...
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...
