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 | Oct 31, 2013 | Broad Street Review, Lutheran
[First published in the Broad Street Review 29 Oct 2013 as What do artists want?] Whenever artists pick up pens or brushes or instruments, or jab fingers at computer keyboards, they start a reformation. They are—whether they realize it or not—closer to Martin Luther,...
by Kile Smith | Oct 29, 2013 | Choral music, liturgical music, Lutheran, new music
Happy to report more than a mild thrill coming thisaway from Minneapolis, where this morning Andy Morgan (Facebook and Twitter) is lecturing on Vespers as part of his graduate conducting seminar at the University of Minnesota. It’s hard to describe the feeling....
by Kile Smith | Sep 26, 2013 | church music, liturgical music, Lutheran, Spirituality, Uncategorized
I’m very pleased, and touched, by the care shown to my Mass for Philadelphia in the review by the Rev. Paul J. Cain in the LHP Lutheran Book Review. LHP stands for Liturgy, Hymnody & Pulpit; their mission: Critical reviews (by Lutheran pastors and church...