by Kile Smith | Nov 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Singing Guitar grabs a 2022 Best Choral Performance GRAMMY nomination for Conspirare! Along with music by Nico Muhly, Reena Esmail, and Craig Hella Johnson, who created all this in love, it’s an honor for my work The Dawn’s Early Light to be included....
by Kile Smith | Oct 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
Listen to the podcast here. Peter Mennin (1923–1983). Moby Dick (1952) Frederick Converse (1871–1940). Song of the Sea (1923) It’s Fleisher Discoveries and I’m Kile Smith. Today we hear two works celebrating the 200-year anniversaries of two of America’s greatest...
by Kile Smith | Aug 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
“Smith has set a new standard for himself … at various times rocks, rolls, mourns, murmurs, laments, and glorifies. Masterful … exhilarating … a new top-notch, emotionally charged choral work. Strongly recommended listening for anyone.”...
by Kile Smith | Apr 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
From the exquisite 13 Apr 2019 performance of The Waking Sun by the Cornell University Chamber Singers with Baroque orchestra of strings, theorbo, and organ, conducted by Stephen Spinelli, movement 4: Weary, with empty throat, stands Tantalus; above his guilty head...
by Kile Smith | Aug 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
[Originally published in the Broad Street Review 20 Aug 2018. Reprinted by permission.] To say the elk doesn’t care would be a disservice to the animal, but I don’t know what else to call it. The person who leaves the car at a busy gas station’s pump to buy chips in...
by Kile Smith | Jul 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
Fanfare for Three Voices. Horn, Trombone, Tuba, 2′. For Carolyn Tillstrom’s Senior Recital, Rowan University, premiered 5 Mar 2017 by Martina Smith, horn, Hayden Adams, trombone, Carolyn Tillstrom, tuba. This is a transcription of movement 6 from Annunciation...
