Veterans Day 2023

My website continues to develop . . .

1) A recording of my Three Pieces for Piano (2015), as performed by my wife, pianist Marguerita Oundjian Smith, has been added. Click here for the page that includes the audio files, as well as photos of the art in Mexico City that inspired the music.

2) Today, I am introducing a page I call LAS Musings.

My father, Lawrence Alexander Smith (1918-70), was a veteran of World War II.

This morning, I spent some time going through documents, photos, and memorabilia related to his military service in the early 1940’s, and I thought they would provide a fitting introduction to what I have written about January 27, 1973, the end of the Vietnam War, and draft numbers for Americans born in 1955.

Having my father’s uniform means a great deal to me. More than 80 years have passed. Remarkable.

Click here for LAS Musings.