Composer, educator, and arts entrepreneur
This is an attempt (and it will be on-going) 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
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.
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.
Larry Alan Smith 