by Kile Smith | Jun 13, 2018
My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (1980/2003), SATB, org, 4′. Text: Isaac Watts (1674–1748), based on Psalm 23. Tune: Resignation, from Southern Harmony, 1855. This recording, the choir of The Church of the Holy Trinity, John French, organist / choirmaster, 15 Mar...
by Kile Smith | May 22, 2018
Text by Robert Lax. SATB choir, unaccompanied. Duration, 65 minutes. Commissioned for The Crossing, Donald Nally, conductor. Premiered June 30th, 2018, at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. All text used with the permission of the Robert Lax...
by Kile Smith | Feb 24, 2018
For unison congregation, organ, and optional cantor and optional descant. The Association of Anglican Musicians commissioned me to write music for the Closing Eucharist of their National Conference in Philadelphia, June 17–22, 2012. The Mass for Philadelphia was first...
by Kile Smith | Feb 24, 2018
With an Alleluia and an Agnus Dei written in the last two weeks, I’ve now completed a chant-based Mass for our Christmas Eve service. It began in 2001 with the Sanctus; we added the Gloria in 2006. I re-used the Sanctus for Easter 2005: It is an interpolation between...
by Kile Smith | Feb 23, 2018
I know a German who does not drink beer. I have heard there are others, but he is the only one I know. I have never heard, however, of Germans who do not sing toasts. Even the German I know who does not drink beer, sings toasts, when others are drinking beer....
