by Kile Smith | Feb 8, 2018
The Word of God is a setting of an original hymn of mine on a text by the Rev. Michael Tavella. I composed the hymn for our church, and the anthem for the combined churches celebrating the 300th Anniversary of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, in 2011. It’s probably...
by Kile Smith | Feb 8, 2018
Available from Concordia Publishing House: see the music and hear a recording here https://youtu.be/Oc3hLPh93MU [First published in the Broad Street Review 14 Oct 2013 as A composer’s secrets.] “Promote yourself,” they tell me. “Get your music in front of...
by Kile Smith | Feb 8, 2018
Give Ear, O Heavens. SATB, 4′. Commissioned for the 40th Anniversary of the Ordinations of the Rev. Dr. Michael G. Tavella and the Rev. N. Amanda Grimmer, pastors of Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Abington, Pa. Text is the canticle Audite Caeli....
by Kile Smith | Feb 8, 2018
Written and published years ago, Come, Ye Sinners harks back to the music I’ve always harked back to, early American hymnody. The text is by the 18th-century Englishman Joseph Hart, the tune by the 19th-century American Benjamin Franklin White, one of the...
by Kile Smith | Feb 8, 2018
Out of the Depths. Text: Psalm 130. SATB, 6-1/2′. Commissioned by Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, Bryn Mawr, Pa., Jeffrey Brillhart, music director. Premiered 13 March 2016. There are qualities in Anton Bruckner’s music that inspired both this setting of Psalm...
