by Kile Smith | Jan 14, 2022 | New Compositions, new music, Piano music, Solo
35′. Commissioned by the Community Music School of Collegeville, in honor of its Thirtieth Anniversary. Premiered there by Milena Urban, 23 April 2022. The theme is “Children at Play,” No. 1 from Vol. 1 of For Children (1908-09) by Béla Bartók. In our...
by Kile Smith | May 11, 2021 | Chamber Music, Solo
There’s a Land Beyond the River, solo violin, 3′. In memory of Sidney Grolnic. Premiered 14 April 2021, Joseph Kauffman, violin, George Washington Memorial Park, Plymouth Meeting, PA. For the story behind this work, please see There’s a Land Beyond...
by Kile Smith | Dec 29, 2018 | new music, Solo
Mazurka for guitar. 3′. 1984, rev. 2018, 2022 A transcription of the Mazurka for piano from 1983. I mention Mazurka in a peripatetic ramble here about my guitar composing. I believe I wrote it for Bill Ghezzi as my first try at writing for guitar. My...
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...
