by Kile Smith | Feb 7, 2018
I can think of just two works that I have written with no performance in mind. Now Ys the Tyme of Crystymas is one of them. I was looking for a Christmas card. Back then (this was in 1997) the Free Library ran a gift shop just off the lobby, and in a display of...
by Kile Smith | Feb 7, 2018
The Heavens Declare, for SATB, SAB solos, piano, and optional audience participation. Duration about 4-½ minutes. Commissioned by Lyric Fest, Suzanne DuPlantis and Laura Ward, artistic directors, and premiered by Lyric Fest and Singing City, Jeffrey Brillhart,...
by Kile Smith | Feb 7, 2018
Commissioned by the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, Paul Rardin, Artistic Director. Completed 24 August 2015. Premiered 18 October 2015, The Church of the Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia by the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia and the Symphony in C,...
by Kile Smith | Feb 5, 2018
I Could See the Sky. For SATB, 2-part Treble Choir, Keyboard, optional String Quartet, 17 minutes (Treble Choir may be boys and/or girls or a few women) The editing process is usually severe. Many good things—music, text, both—are often left on the cutting room floor,...
by Kile Smith | Feb 5, 2018
Concert and CD reviews of Vespers are here. Order CD here. S.S.S.A.T.B. soloists from within the choir S.S.A.A.T.T.B.B. choir of at least 16 singers Renaissance band of seven players with the following instruments: recorders: 2 soprano, 2 alto, 3 tenor, 2 bass (G, C),...
