by Kile Smith | May 21, 2008 | Classical music, Lutheran, Music Composition, New Compositions, Radio
Just interviewed yesterday by the delightful and knowledgeable Ed Cunningham at WHYY 90.9 FM in Philadelphia for Showcase, which airs Sundays at 8pm. Joan Kimball and Bob Wiemken of Piffaro, The Renaissance Band brought me along and we talked mostly about Vespers,...
by Kile Smith | May 17, 2008 | Classical music, Music Composition, New Compositions
The Crossing has commissioned me to write them an a cappella New Work for performance in the spring of 2009, on the haunting poetry of Paul Celan, which I’m just starting to get to know; can’t wait to work with Donald Nally and these wonderful singers again, after my...
by Kile Smith | May 16, 2008 | hymn, Lutheran, Music Composition, New Compositions
A recent hymn, O Lord, Our Lord, Your Excellent Name, my versification and setting of Psalm 8, has been selected for publication in the next Lutheran Forum, summer of 2008… speaking of hymns, we just sang on Pentecost Sunday the newest collaboration with Rev. Michael...
by Kile Smith | May 14, 2008 | Classical music, Music Composition, New Compositions
Following up on our very successful project with David Kim, Paul Jones has asked me and other colleagues for some New Works for cello and piano this time, for Anne Martindale Williams, Principal Cello of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; as with the violin/piano...
by Kile Smith | Apr 21, 2008 | church music, Classical music, Music Composition
On our 20 Apr Brassfest! (Jackie insisted on the “!”) for Rogation at church, 10-yr-old Martina played horn alongside the professionals (classmate Brendan also getting it done on trumpet); my arrangement—from, it seems, 85 years ago—of the Marcello Psalm 19 for the...
by Kile Smith | Mar 15, 2008 | Classical music, Lutheran, Music Composition, New Compositions
We’re hoping to make a commercial recording of Vespers this summer, “we” being the fantastic folks from Piffaro and The Crossing; have some editing to do and am adding another section near the end…
