Tag: Larry Alan Smith

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Welcome! This is an on-going attempt to capture my varied professional interests and activities through pages on this website, as well as links to related websites. I hope that you will be a frequent visitor because the website will be dynamic with new content being added on a regular basis.

Larry

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About Larry Alan Smith – Recordings – Commercial Recordings – Commissioning New Work – Current Projects – List of Works by Medium – List of Works by Title (in alphabetical order) – The Composer as Performer – The Soul of Wine (2025) – Berg Associates, Inc. – Larry Alan Smith Honorary Fund – LAS Musings – My Students (1979 to the present) – Photo Gallery-Musicians – Poems by Larry Alan Smith – LAS and Wine – Contact

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A podcast from 2013

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In early 2013, a friend put me in touch with musician, web/graphic designer and audio/video producer George Marshall. George was just starting a podcast devoted to contemporary music and living composers, and he asked if he could interview me. I agreed, and I was very pleased with the results.

The interview focuses on my work for soprano and piano, A Slash of Blue! A sweep of Gray! (2010). You can hear the complete work in the Commercial Recordings section of this website under I dwell in Possibility. It features soprano Cherie Caluda.

To hear the podcast, click here, and select the March 1, 2013 episode.

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Aria da Capo

By chance, I came across an interesting blog post by Rhoda-Gale Pollack about Edna St. Vincent Millay’s play,  Aria da Capo. With the permission of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s sister, Norma Millay Ellis, I set the play to music in 1980. Near the end of her post, Dr. Pollack mentions my opera which is scored for five singers (soprano, tenor, two baritones and a bass-baritone) and a chamber ensemble consisting of the following instruments: clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, one percussionist, piano and string quintet. The work is available on rental from the Theodore Presser Company.

Click here to read Dr. Pollack’s blog post.