专辑简介

Composer Kile Smith's music is hailed by critics, performers, and audiences for its strong voice, sheer beauty, and "profoundly direct emotional appeal." The recipient of numerous commissions, his music has performed throughout the U.S., in Europe, and the UK. Smith's very first works were art songs, and he has composed them throughout his career, having now written about 65 songs. For this recording, the performers are members of Lyric Fest, a Philadelphia based organization, whose mission is to bring people together through song and include mezzo-soprano Suzanne DuPlantis, tenor Jonas Hacker, soprano Jessica Lennick, baritone Daniel Teadt, clarinetist Doris Hall-Gulati and pianist Laura Ward, who is artistic director of Lyric Fest.