Orchestral Music | Kile Smith • composer

The Dance of Ravel and Satie

by Kile Smith | Jun 7, 2017 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Orchestral Music, WRTI

Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday June 6th, 5 to 6 pm… In the last Discoveries we took a snapshot of Saint-Saëns, Ravel, and Poulenc from 100 years ago. Each was from a different world of French music. Camille Saint-Saëns was old: older than the...

Poulenc Couldn’t Believe What Ravel Said about Saint-Saëns

by Kile Smith | May 1, 2017 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Orchestral Music, Radio, WRTI

On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday 5–6 pm on WRTI-FM… One hundred years ago, 18-year-old Francis Poulenc was looking for a composition teacher, and being recommended by the pianist Ricardo Viñes to Maurice Ravel, went to meet him, scores in...

Susquehanna

by Kile Smith | Jan 15, 2017 | new music, Orchestral Music

Susquehanna, An Overture for Orchestra. 2 Flutes, Piccolo, 2 Oboes, English Horn, 2 Clarinets, Bass Clarinet, 2 Bassoons, 4 Horns, 3 Trumpets, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani, 3 Percussion, Strings. 8 minutes. Commissioned for the 40th Anniversary of the Susquehanna...

The Bremen Town Musicians, for Orchestra

by Kile Smith | Jun 10, 2016 | Children's Music, new music, Orchestral Music

Orchestrated for narrator and small orchestra, 2016, for the English Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Woods, conductor, and premiered 10 Jul 2016. 1111–1110-1perc-narrator-str. 8′ Original composed 2008. Violin, cello, narrator.From a story compiled by the Brothers...

The Strange Genius of the Adagio for Strings

by Kile Smith | Nov 2, 2015 | Classical music, Orchestral Music, String Orchestra, String Quartet, WRTI Arts Desk

[First published in WRTI’s Arts Desk 2 Nov 2015] Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings didn’t start out the way we know it now. In this feature for WRTI, I look at the inescapable strangeness of this work that is now one of the most heard and most moving pieces in the...

Agnus Dei reviews

by Kile Smith | Oct 23, 2015 | Choral music, church music, liturgical music, Orchestral Music, Spirituality

Still floating from the exquisite first performance of Agnus Dei by Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia and Symphony in C, conducted by MC’s new director, Paul Rardin. Turns out, on a day of many concerts in Philadelphia, many with new music, the Philadelphia...

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Canticle, Vocal Arts Ensemble, Craig Hella Johnson, produced by 2020 GRAMMY Classical Producer of the Year, Blanton Alspaugh

A Birch in Winter CD with Where Flames a Word, Voces Tallinn, David Puderbaugh, 2020 Estonian Recording of the Year

6 Jun. Concert of all-Smith works, Riga Project Chorus, Chris Walsh Sinka, Daugavpils, Latvia. COVID-19 canceled

7 Jun. Concert of all-Smith works, Riga Project Chorus, Chris Walsh Sinka, Riga, Latvia. COVID-19 canceled

12 Jun. The Arc in the Sky. et al., Kevin Neel, Boston. COVID-19 canceled.

14 Jun. And Good in Every Thing. Alium Spiritum, virtual concerts 3 and 8pm Eastern

14 Jun. The Arc in the Sky. et al., Kevin Neel, Boston. COVID-19 canceled.

28 Jun. The Arc in the Sky. Vocal Arts Ensemble Cincinnati, Craig Hella Johnson, broadcast on WGUC Cincinnati, 8pm

11–18 Jul. The Consolation of Apollo. Portland State Chamber Choir, Ethan Sperry. 12th World Symposium on Choral Music, Auckland, New Zealand. COVID-19 canceled.

11–16 Dec. The Consolation of Apollo and The Waking Sun. Recording with The Crossing and Quicksilver

20 Dec. The Consolation of Apollo and The Waking Sun. The Crossing @ Christmas, Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia