by Kile Smith | Aug 12, 2022 | New Compositions, Orchestral Music
Jubilate Deo, for orchestra. 2022. 2222–2200–timp–str, 5’30”. Premiered 22 Oct 2022 by the Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra, Sheldon Bair conducting. This is a transcription for chamber orchestra of my 2019 choral work, Jubilate Deo, celebrating 40 years of...
by Kile Smith | Jan 14, 2022 | New Compositions, new music, Piano music, Solo
Beginning at 7:24, the premiere of Thirty Variations on a Theme of Bartók by Kile Smith, Milena Urban, piano, Community Music School of Collegeville, 23 Apr 2022. Thirty Variations on a Theme of Bartók. For piano. 35′. Commissioned by the Community Music...
by Kile Smith | Nov 15, 2021 | Brass Music, Chamber Music, New Compositions, new music
Intrada, for Six Horns. 2’45”. For the Curtis Institute of Music Horn Studio. Premiered 1 Dec 2021, the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia. Composed spring 2021 at the request of Jeffrey Lang and Jennifer Montone, who teach horn at Curtis and who...
by Kile Smith | May 27, 2017 | Children's Music, Choral music, New Compositions, String Quartet
I Could See the Sky. For SATB, 2-part Treble Choir, Keyboard, optional String Quartet, 17 minutes (Treble Choir may be boys and/or girls or a few women) The editing process is usually severe. Many good things—music, text, both—are often left on the cutting room floor,...
by Kile Smith | Oct 8, 2016 | Art songs, New Compositions, new music, Vocal music
There Is No Great and No Small. Mezzo-soprano, piano, 3′. Text by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Premiered Philadelphia: 8 Oct 2016, the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, 9 Oct 2016, the Academy of Vocal Arts. For Lyric Fest’s opening concert of the 2016/17...
by Kile Smith | Apr 6, 2016 | Children's Music, Choral music, New Compositions
Grandmother’s Garden. Text: Grandmother’s Garden, the children’s book by John Archambault. 2-part Children’s Choir, Piano, opt. C Instrument, 9′. See the entire score and hear the premiere at MusicSpoke. Commissioned by Settlement Music...