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Nobility & Melomanie on WWFM

by Kile Smith | Jan 29, 2015 | Chamber Music, Dance Music, new music, Radio

David Osenberg interviews my friends in the Baroque/new music chamber group Mélomanie tonight on WWFM’s Cadenza, Thursday at 10 pm Eastern, with a rebroadcast at 7 am Saturday January 31st. Two movements from my dance suite The Nobility of Women will air. This...

The Nobility of Women

by Kile Smith | Jun 25, 2014 | Baroque music, Chamber Music, Dance Music, new music

The Nobility of Women 2011; Baroque fl, ob, vn, viola da gamba, Baroque vc, harpsichord; 20′ Commissioned and premiered by Mélomanie This 20-minute work takes its name from the 1600 dance instruction manual Nobiltà di Dame by Fabritio Caroso. The name of the book...

The Red Book of Montserrat premieres at Kimmel

by Kile Smith | May 17, 2013 | Dance Music, Early Music, New Compositions, new music, Orchestral Music, String Orchestra

I could hardly have been happier at the premiere of The Red Book of Montserrat last night at the Perelman Theater in the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia. This newest string orchestra work is a 20-minute suite commissioned by the Philadelphia Sinfonia, Gary White, music...

The Red Book of Montserrat

by Kile Smith | May 5, 2013 | Dance Music, Early Music, New Compositions, new music, Orchestral Music, String Orchestra

The Red Book of Montserrat is a suite for string orchestra commissioned by the Philadelphia Sinfonia, the excellent youth orchestra Gary White directs. It sets five of the ten songs from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, the 14th-century book of music and texts from...

Thank you, Mélomanie, for Nobility of Women encore

by Kile Smith | Sep 30, 2012 | Baroque music, Chamber Music, Dance Music, Early Music, new music

Had a blast at Mélomanie’s season opener last night: Telemann, Boismoitier, a Chris Braddock world premiere, and selections from recent commissions, including The Nobility of Women, which they had premiered in January. I always enjoy hearing the music of Ingrid...

The Nobility of Women, Mélomanie season opener

by Kile Smith | Sep 28, 2012 | Baroque music, Chamber Music, Dance Music, Early Music, new music

Mélomanie’s 2012-13 season begins tomorrow night at Immanuel Church, Highlands in Wilmington with a potpourri of excerpted recent commissions. The Nobility of Women will be on the program, along with music by Ingrid Arauco, Mark Hagerty, Chuck Holdeman, and the...
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UK PREMIERE The Arc in the Sky. Reading Bach Choir, Daniel Mahoney, Douai Abbey, Upper Woolhampton, England

16 Jul. There’s a Land Beyond the River. Eric Anderson, euphonium, Rae Ann Anderson, organ. St. Paul’s Lutheran, Glenside PA

20 Jul. Where the Mind Is Without Fear. withonevoice, Brian J. Winnie, Western Illinois University, Macomb IL

21 Jul. Where the Mind Is Without Fear. withonevoice, Brian J. Winnie, Fourth Presbyterian, Chicago

PREMIERE 23 Jul. Northland. Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Joshua Habermann, Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. Premiere

25 Jul. Jubilate Deo, for string orchestra. Elizabethtown College Music Camp, Sheldon Bair

29 Jul. Northland. Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Joshua Habermann, Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi

4 Aug. Northland. Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Joshua Habermann, Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi

22 Aug. Jubilate Deo, for string orchestra. Abington Festival Strings, Abington Presbyterian, Abington PA

15 Sep. “Conversation in the Mountains” from Where Flames a Word released as a single, Choral Arts Initiative, Brandon Elliott

PREMIERE 23 Sep. “Veni Sancte Spiritus” and “How Fair the Bright and Morning Star” (Wie schön leuchtet) from Vespers. New versions with organ. Transept, Timothy Campbell, Cathedral of St. Joseph, Sioux Falls, SD

25 Sep. Talk and presentation on Northland. Southampton Square Club, Masonic Village at Warminster, PA

3 Oct. Jerusalem from The Arc in the Sky. Utah Valley University Chamber Choir, Reed Criddle, UVU Norda Center, Orem, UT

7 Oct. Jerusalem from The Arc in the Sky. Utah Valley University Chamber Choir, Reed Criddle, Utah All-State Choir Concert, Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City

PREMIERE 14 Oct. Sometimes It Happens So. Benjamin Flanders, baritone, Sonya Szabo Reynolds, piano. ChamberPalooza, Cincinnati Art Museum

16 Oct. Jubilate Deo, for string orchestra. Armstrong High School (MN), Kevin Martin

28 Oct. “Why did they all shout” from The Arc in the Sky. University of Michigan Chorale, Sandra Snow, East Lansing, MI

9 Nov. There’s a Land Beyond the River. Megan Carroll, flute, Graeme Burgan piano. Trinity Orthodox Presbyterian, Hatboro, PA

13 Nov. Jubilate Deo, for string orchestra. Robbinsdale Area All-District Festival, Kevin Martin, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis

3 Dec. Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow. Blue Ridge Singers, Jeffrey Alban, First Baptist, Winchester VA

8 Dec. Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow. Blue Ridge Singers, Jeffrey Alban, Front Royal Presbyterian, Front Royal VA

19 Dec. Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow. Blue Ridge Singers, Jeffrey Alban, Trinity Episcopal, Upperville, VA

21 Dec. “How Fair the Bright and Morning Star” (Wie schön leuchtet) from Vespers. New version for SATB, organ. Transept, Timothy Campbell, Cathedral of St. Joseph, Sioux Falls, SD

21 Dec. Red-tail and Hummingbird. Blair Bollinger, Curtis Institute Brass, Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, Chicago

PREMIERE 10, 11 May 2024. Wireless. Chor Leoni, Erick Lichte

27 Jun 2024. TBD. The Crossing, Donald Nally, Month of Moderns 2, Awbury Arboretum, Germantown, Philadelphia

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.

From the blog

  • Fleisher Discoveries: Ulysses Kay, As He Sees Them
  • Dark Is the Night and Green Is the Grass (Tumša nakte, zaļā zāle)
  • Wireless
  • Fleisher Discoveries: Leo Sowerby and the Sense of the Joy
  • Fleisher Discoveries: Frank Bridge, Summer and The Sea
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