Kile Smith | composer

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971). Symphony of Psalms (1930) As success followed success, especially in the three ballets he wrote for the impresario Sergei Diaghilev, Stravinsky lived the life of a ...

https://kilesmith.com/2024/04/04/fleisher-discoveries-stravinsky-symphony-of-psalms/

Marianne Martines (1744–1812). Psalm 51 (1768) Martines. Symphony in C (1770) Metastasio, the leading playwright of the age, introduced her to everyone. She performed for the empress. She knew ...

https://kilesmith.com/2024/03/06/fleisher-discoveries-the-pre-eminence-of-marianne-martines/

George Gershwin (1898–1937). Rhapsody in Blue (1924) George Gershwin is playing billiards and in walks brother Ira with a newspaper which says that George is writing a jazz concerto for a conce...

https://kilesmith.com/2024/02/01/fleisher-discoveries-gershwins-rhapsody-in-blue-at-100/

First published in the Broad Street Review 27 Nov 2023, and reprinted here by permission. It’s been a good year for bedstraw. Its narrow leaves radiate out in evenly spaced fans along its vine;...

https://kilesmith.com/2024/02/01/bedstraw/

Christmas and Magic. 4′. 2023. This is the first pop song I’ve composed. I have certainly skirted the area of pop, and of jazz, in some works, such as April Showers, In This Blue Room, and ot...

https://kilesmith.com/2023/11/29/christmas-and-magic/

Jackson Hill (b. 1941). Symphony No. 3 (1997) From Alabama and North Carolina, through Japanese court music, Buddhist chant, Oxford, and Renaissance polyphony, it is music from the center of Penn...

https://kilesmith.com/2023/11/17/fleisher-discoveries-jackson-hill-symphony-no-3/

Franklinville-Schwarzwald Männerchor Sängergruß (2023). TTBB, 1’30”. Premiered 5 Nov 2023 at the Fall Concert of the Damenchor Wald-Echo with the Franklinville-Schwarzwald Männerchor, Jac...

https://kilesmith.com/2023/11/07/the-franklinville-schwarzwald-mannerchor-sangergrus/

In German, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, this transcription of the second movement from the original Vespers is for SATB and organ with optional violin and theorbo, 4’30”. This was pre...

https://kilesmith.com/2023/10/12/how-fair-the-bright-and-morning-star-from-vespers/

This transcription of the first movement from the original Vespers is for TTBB and organ, 2′. This was premiered 23 Sep 2023 by Transept, Timothy Campbell, Founder and Artistic Director, at the...

https://kilesmith.com/2023/10/12/veni-sancte-spiritus-from-vespers/

Ned Rorem (1923–2022). Third Symphony (1958) His accomplishment in art song has had the unfortunate effect of overshadowing his orchestral music, especially so his symphonies. Hi everybody, I�...

https://kilesmith.com/2023/10/02/fleisher-discoveries-ned-rorems-100th/