by Kile Smith | Nov 22, 2013 | new music, Piano music
Stephen Self plays Softly and Tenderly at Grace University Lutheran Church in Minneapolis this Sunday at the 10:30 service. I wrote this short work for solo piano quite a while back, and revised it in 2012. You can read a description of the setting of this old...
by Kile Smith | Mar 2, 2013 | Concerto, new music, Orchestral Music, Piano music
Variations on a Theme of Schubert Solo Piano, 17′ https://kilesmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/variations-on-a-theme-of-schubert-solo-version.mp3 Solo Piano—2222—2100—timp, 1 perc—str. 17′. Full score...
by Kile Smith | Nov 20, 2012 | Broad Street Review, Classical music, Composition, hymn, Piano music
[Reprinted with permission from the Broad Street Review under “Advice for aspiring composers: Stop all that strolling, and just stand still”] It looked like a black sparrow, except that it was slightly larger than a sparrow, and also there’s no such thing...
by Kile Smith | Nov 17, 2012 | American music, Broad Street Review, New Compositions, new music, Piano music
My talented colleague Tim Shaw is an excellent pianist as well as a successful composer of sacred music represented by major church music publishers. He’s about to record a CD of hymns for piano and asked if he could include a piece of mine. He remembered that...
by Kile Smith | Mar 24, 2012 | new music, Piano music
My first thought was to call this short piano work Elegy, my second, not to. We were all saddened by the tragedy of Sam Hsu’s death, but anyone who knew Sam could not stay sad for long. Elegy, though, seemed to lock me into sadness, however peaceful or resigned...
by Kile Smith | Sep 20, 2010 | new music, Piano music
In addition to the Bernard Rands interview, Network for New Music has also released a podcast about their Diabelli Project, 25 variations on that theme made famous by Beethoven. The variations, ranging from 48″ to 2’44”, were written by Philadelphia...
