by Kile Smith | Oct 13, 2015 | Choral music, church music, liturgical music
Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia interviews me about Agnus Dei, which they commissioned to complement the Mozart Great Mass in C Minor. The premiere, with Symphony in C, is Sunday, October 18th at 4 pm at the Church of the Holy Trinity on Rittenhouse Square in...
by Kile Smith | Aug 24, 2015 | Choral music, church music, liturgical music, new music, Orchestral Music
Just sent in the Agnus Dei I’ve been composing for the last number of months. It is for Paul Rardin’s first concert as the new artistic director of the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia. Official program notes to follow, but as if writing a piece for this...
by Kile Smith | Jul 10, 2015 | Brass Music, Choral music, liturgical music, new music
One of the great things about the project that became Vespers was the uniqueness of the ensemble—writing a piece for the world-renowned Renaissance band Piffaro was as fun and exciting as could be. But it also meant that basically nobody else could ever perform...
by Kile Smith | May 29, 2015 | Choral music, liturgical music, new music
“Vespers,” writes Sebastian Spreng in Miami Clasica, El Nuevo Herald (the Spanish edition of the Miami Herald), and Knight Arts, “astonishes the listener.” He praises Seraphic Fire and Piffaro, the Renaissance Band for “the tapestry masterfully woven by angelic...
by Kile Smith | May 12, 2015 | Choral music, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music
Greg Stepanich writes in the Palm Beach ArtsPaper, May 10th 2015, on Saturday’s Vespers performance by Seraphic Fire and Piffaro, the third out of four concerts ending Seraphic’s 2015–15 season. In one of the most detailed and perceptive reviews of this...
by Kile Smith | May 7, 2015 | Choral music, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music
David Fleshler writes in the South Florida Classical Review of last night’s performance of Vespers by Seraphic Fire and Piffaro, The Renaissance Band. Describing “the unique tone of the Vespers by American composer Kile Smith,” he writes that...
