hymn | Kile Smith • composer

Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow

by Kile Smith | Aug 21, 2020 | Choral music, church music, hymn

Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow. SATB, piano, 4′. Premiered December 2020 by the Choral Arts Society of Washington, D.C., Scott Tucker, artistic director. Chorus America auctioned a composition from me at their 2019 annual conference, in Philadelphia that year....

Of the Father’s Love Begotten

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...

Driving on Broad Street

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...

Anthem: Shall the Blessed Saints Surround Us

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...

Anthems performed at Ursinus College

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...

Anthems in concert at Ursinus College

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...

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News

2020 GRAMMY Classical Producer of the Year, Blanton Alspaugh, Canticle, Vocal Arts Ensemble, Craig Hella Johnson

2020 Estonian Recording of the Year, A Birch in Winter CD with Where Flames a Word, Voces Tallinn, David Puderbaugh

Oct. WFMT Chicago Fall Fund Drive pledge gift Live Art CD incl. Where Flames a Word. Chicago Chamber Choir, Christopher Windle

2 Oct. Fleisher Discoveries podcast. The Un-Classical Janáček Sinfonietta

3 Oct. The Dawn’s Early Light. Classical New Releases, WRTI Philadelphia, Mark Pinto

4 Oct. The Heavens Declare. St. Mary’s Episcopal, Richmond, Ryan Tibbetts

10 Oct. Host, interviewer, Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra livestream

11 Oct. The Dawn’s Early Light. Going Beyond Words, KVNO Omaha, Stanley Schmidt

18 Oct. Go Forth into the World in Peace. Premiere, Knox Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, Earl Rivers

24 Oct. Everyone Sang, Chicago Chamber Choir virtual concert, Christopher Windle

25 Oct. Completed Blue Lobster, baritone, piano, commissioned by Benjamin Flanders

26 Oct, week of. The Singing Guitar Classical Album of the Week, including The Dawn’s Early Light. WRTI-FM Philadelphia

29 Oct. The Dawn’s Early Light. WRTI-FM Philadelphia, Debra Lew Harder

1 Nov. Reflection. Kurt Knecht, St. Paul’s Episcopal, Kansas City, MO

2 Nov. Everyone Sang, Loyola University Chicago Choir virtual concert, Kirsten Hedegaard

2 Nov. Fleisher Discoveries podcast. The Idea of America in the Ives Holidays Symphony

7 Nov. Host, interviewer, Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra livestream

16 Nov. Completed America the Beautiful, commissioned by iSing Silicon Valley Girl Choir

18 Nov. Scott Tucker & Kile Smith, subscriber-only interview on Rise Up Shepherd, and Follow, Choral Arts Society of Washington, 5:00

22 Nov. Singing City Webinar Panel, 2:00, The Composer’s Craft in Choral Music, with Jeffrey Brillhart, Melissa Dunphy, Jay Fluellen

11–16 Dec. The Consolation of Apollo and The Waking Sun. Recording with The Crossing and Quicksilver

20 Dec. The Consolation of Apollo and The Waking Sun. The Crossing @ Christmas, Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia

Recent CDs

The Arc in the Sky. The Crossing. 2020 Grammy nomination, Best Choral Performance

Canticle and Alleluia. Vocal Arts Ensemble. 2020 Grammy, Classical Producer of the Year, Blanton Alspaugh

In This Blue Room, other songs. Lyric Fest

The Nobility of Women. Mélomanie

The Stars Shine, from The Consolation of Apollo. The Same Stream

Vespers. Piffaro, the Renaissance Band, and The Crossing

Where Flames a Word. The Crossing

Where Flames a Word. Khorikos

Where Flames a Word. Voces Tallinn. 2020 Estonian Recording of the Year

Where Flames a Word. Chicago Chamber Choir

Selected publications

Alleluia. SATB, 6′. Hal Leonard

The Consolation of Apollo. SATB, perc, 35′. MusicSpoke

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day. SATB, bells, 3′. Hal Leonard

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. SATB, org, 3′. Concordia.