Totentanz
by Kile Smith | Dec 29, 2018 | new music, Solo
Totentanz for guitar. 5′. 1994, rev. 2005. Premiere recording: Written for Bill Ghezzi and premiered by him at the George Antheil Music Festival, Trenton, NJ, in 1994. I mention Totentanz in a fairly peripatetic ramble here about my composing for guitar. What I...News
2020 GRAMMY Classical Producer of the Year, Blanton Alspaugh, Canticle, Vocal Arts Ensemble, Craig Hella Johnson
2020 Estonian Recording of the Year, A Birch in Winter CD with Where Flames a Word, Voces Tallinn, David Puderbaugh
Oct. WFMT Chicago Fall Fund Drive pledge gift Live Art CD incl. Where Flames a Word. Chicago Chamber Choir, Christopher Windle
2 Oct. Fleisher Discoveries podcast. The Un-Classical Janáček Sinfonietta
3 Oct. The Dawn’s Early Light. Classical New Releases, WRTI Philadelphia, Mark Pinto
4 Oct. The Heavens Declare. St. Mary’s Episcopal, Richmond, Ryan Tibbetts
10 Oct. Host, interviewer, Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra livestream
11 Oct. The Dawn’s Early Light. Going Beyond Words, KVNO Omaha, Stanley Schmidt
18 Oct. Go Forth into the World in Peace. Premiere, Knox Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, Earl Rivers
24 Oct. Everyone Sang, Chicago Chamber Choir virtual concert, Christopher Windle
25 Oct. Completed Blue Lobster, baritone, piano, commissioned by Benjamin Flanders
26 Oct, week of. The Singing Guitar Classical Album of the Week, including The Dawn’s Early Light. WRTI-FM Philadelphia
29 Oct. The Dawn’s Early Light. WRTI-FM Philadelphia, Debra Lew Harder
1 Nov. Reflection. Kurt Knecht, St. Paul’s Episcopal, Kansas City, MO
2 Nov. Everyone Sang, Loyola University Chicago Choir virtual concert, Kirsten Hedegaard
2 Nov. Fleisher Discoveries podcast. The Idea of America in the Ives Holidays Symphony
7 Nov. Host, interviewer, Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra livestream
16 Nov. Completed America the Beautiful, commissioned by iSing Silicon Valley Girl Choir
18 Nov. Scott Tucker & Kile Smith, subscriber-only interview on Rise Up Shepherd, and Follow, Choral Arts Society of Washington, 5:00
22 Nov. Singing City Webinar Panel, 2:00, The Composer’s Craft in Choral Music, with Jeffrey Brillhart, Melissa Dunphy, Jay Fluellen
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
Recent CDs
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
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. Khorikos
Where Flames a Word. Voces Tallinn. 2020 Estonian Recording of the Year
Where Flames a Word. Chicago Chamber Choir
Selected publications
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.