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...
by Kile Smith | May 4, 2015 | Choral music, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music
What a nice preview of the four Vespers concerts in and around Miami this week with Seraphic Fire and Piffaro, the Renaissance Band. I’m so excited to work again with Piffaro, and honored that Patrick Quigley and two-time Grammy nominee Seraphic Fire, an...
by Kile Smith | Jan 27, 2015 | Choral music, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music
Back from Chicago & Evanston, and gorgeously revealing performances of Vespers by Northwestern University’s Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble (BCE) and Piffaro, The Renaissance Band. Donald Nally led brilliantly, Piffaro played like gangbusters, and...
by Kile Smith | Jan 15, 2015 | Choral music, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music, Uncategorized
January 24, 2015, Millar Chapel, Northwestern University, Evanston (Institute for New Music) January 25, 2015, St. James Cathedral, Chicago (Presented in collaboration with the Evelyn Dunbar Early Music Festival) Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble and Piffaro,...
by Kile Smith | Dec 3, 2014 | Baroque music, church music, Classical music, liturgical music, Lutheran, Radio, WRTI
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, December 6th, 5-6 pm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211, “Coffee Cantata” (c.1735) Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 (1716, rev. 1723), excerpts...
by Kile Smith | Jul 3, 2014 | Anthem, Choral music, church music, liturgical music
“Kile Smith pivoted among an emotional trinity of strident, tense, and placid in O Rex Gentium (O King of Nations).”—Peter Dobrin, Philadelphia Inquirer, 3 Dec 2015 What a glorious idea from Choral Arts Philadelphia and their artistic director Matthew...
