Music Composition | Kile Smith • composer

Haydn's Symphonies, First and Last

by Kile Smith | May 29, 2013 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Music Composition, Radio, WRTI

Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection broadcasts Saturday, June 1st, 2013, 5-6 pm on WRTI and wrti.org. Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Symphony No. 107 (A) (c.1758). Kevin Mallon, Toronto Chamber Orchestra. Naxos 572130 Tr 5-7. 13:32. Haydn. Symphony No. 1 (c.1759)....

Prokofiev Moves Back to Russia

by Kile Smith | May 2, 2013 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Music Composition, Radio, WRTI

Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection broadcasts Saturday, May 4th, 2013, 5-6 pm on WRTI and wrti.org. Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953). Summer Day, Children’s Suite for Small Orchestra, Op. 65b (1935/41). San Diego Chamber Orchestra, Donald Barra. Koch 7042, Tr...

Edvard Grieg discovers Norway

by Kile Smith | Apr 4, 2013 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Music Composition, Radio, WRTI

Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection broadcasts Saturday, April 6th, 2013, 5-6 pm on WRTI and wrti.org. Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). Two Norwegian Airs (1869). Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset. Naxos 572403, Tr 12-14. 11:07 Grieg. Old Norwegian Romance (1891,...

How Delius fell in love with music in Florida

by Kile Smith | Mar 6, 2013 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Music Composition, Radio, WRTI

Broadcasting Saturday, March 9th, 2013, 5-6 pm (2nd Saturday this month!) on WRTI Frederick Delius (1862-1934). Life’s Dance (1898/1901/12). Royal Philharmonic, Charles Groves. Angel 63171, Tr 1. 15:21 Delius. Appalachia (1896/1903). Alun Jenkins, Baritone, Hallé...

Percy Grainger

by Kile Smith | Jan 30, 2013 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Music Composition, Radio, WRTI

Broadcasting Saturday, February 2nd, 2013, 5-6 pm on WRTI Percy Grainger (1882-1961). Hill-Song No. 1 (1902, rev. 1921/23). Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon. Koch 7003, Tr 3. 13:12 Grainger. The Warriors (1916). City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon...

Three Dances re-orchestrated for string orchestra

by Kile Smith | Dec 19, 2012 | Composition, Music Composition, New Compositions, Orchestral Music, String Orchestra

Just finished a new piece. Well, it’s an old piece that I can’t seem to leave alone. For a performance in the spring of 2013, it’s my third take on Three Dances. That’s me, to the left, after hitting the double bar. Three Dances was originally...

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At a glance

5 Aug. “Two Out of Three Ways to Compose,” lecture, Settlement Music School Adult Chamber Players, Willow Grove, PA

5 Sep. Preisend mit viel schönen Reden, arr. TTBB. Franklinville-Schwarzwald Männerchor, Jacqueline Smith. Cannstatter Volksfest-Verein 150th Anniversary Oktoberfest, Philadelphia

11 Sep. Go Forth into the World in Peace. Knox Church, Cincinnati, Earl Rivers

18 Sep. There’s a Land Beyond the River. Premiere. Doris Hall-Gulati, clarinet, and string quartet. Music Transforms concert, Wayne (PA) Presbyterian

1 Oct. April Showers. Calliope’s Call, Marblehead, MA

2 Oct. April Showers. Calliope’s Call, Boston

2 Oct. The Arc in the Sky. Riga Project Choir, Christopher Walsh Sinka. Dole Folk Center, Riga

8 Oct. The Arc in the Sky. Riga Project Choir, Christopher Walsh Sinka. National Library of Latvia, Riga

9 Oct. The Arc in the Sky. Riga Project Choir, Christopher Walsh Sinka. Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Daugavpils

20 Oct. “Thou mayst know, if thou wilt notice” from The Consolation of Apollo. Western Illinois University Singers, Brian Winnie, Macomb, IL

22 Oct. Jubilate Deo, for chamber orchestra. Premiere. Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra, Sheldon Bair.

3 Dec. The Consolation of Apollo. The LOTUS Project, Alicia Brozovich. NJ State Museum Planetarium, Trenton, NJ

17 Dec. Jubilate Deo, for string orchestra. Premiere. Temple University Prep Annual Concert, Aaron Picht, Temple Performing Arts Center

18 Mar. Susquehanna. Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra, Sheldon Bair, Bel Air, MD

5 May. In the Midst of Life. William Ferris Chorale, Chicago, Christopher Windle. Premiere. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Chicago, 7:30

7 May. In the Midst of Life. William Ferris Chorale, Chicago, Christopher Windle. Premiere. Wicker Park Lutheran, Chicago, 3:30

20 May. The Bremen Town Musicians. Salt Lake Symphony, Robert Baldwin

July. New Work. Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Joshua Habermann. Premiere

8 Jul. The Arc in the Sky. Reading Bach Choir, Daniel Mahoney, Douai Abbey, Upper Woolhampton, England

Recent CDs

The Bremen Town Musicians. English Symphony Orchestra, Gemma Whelan, narrator, Kenneth Woods, conductor. Fiddles, Forests, and Fowl Fables.

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

A Child’s Afternoon. Fantasmagoria. Anna K. Meyer, flute, & Erik Meyer, organ

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. Voces Tallinn. 2020 Estonian Recording of the Year

Where Flames a Word. Khorikos

Where Flames a Word. Chicago Chamber Choir

Selected publications

The Star-Spangled Banner. SATB, piano, opt. cello, 5’30”. Hal Leonard

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.