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Text Box: Larry Alan Smith (Photo by Ron Compton)

WORKS IN PROGRESS BY LARRY ALAN SMITH

 

A work for solo piano and narrator

Lane Tells Gladstone Belle His Story

Premiere: July 11, 2007

7:30 pm

Opening Night

2007 Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and Academy

Evans Center

Wintergreen, Virginia

Roberta Hill, poet

Larry Alan Smith, piano

 

A new work for orchestra

Commissioned by the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra

Jeannine Wagar, conductor

Premiere: March 15, 2008

Walton Arts Center

Fayetteville, Arkansas

 

A new work for string quartet

String Quartet No. 3 for the Chilingirian String Quartet’s 2008- 2009 North American Concert Tour - Details: TBA

 

A new work for orchestra

Commissioned by the Orchestre de la Cité Internationale

Adrian McDonnell, conductor

Grand Théâtre ("la Coupole")

Maison Internationale

Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris

Paris, France

2009 - 2010 season

A Musician as Poet: Poems by Larry Alan Smith

Click here to read some of Larry’s recent poems. 

Text Box: News Archives Click here to review older news items. Text Box: “OH, VIRGIL!” The Virgil Thomson Foundation has honored the Woodstock Fringe with a two-year matching grant of $22,000 to support the creation of a new play based on the life of the great composer and music critic, Virgil Thomson. A workshop production will be seen in the 2007 Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre and Song! Larry Alan Smith, Artistic Director of American SongFest, and Wallace Norman, Producing Artistic Director of the Woodstock Fringe, will collaborate on the writing of this new work, tentatively titled, “Oh, Virgil!”

LARRY ALAN SMITH

AND WINTERGREEN PERFORMING ARTS!

 

The 2007 Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and Academy begins on July 9, 2007. 

Larry Alan Smith, Artistic and Executive Director of Wintergreen Performing Arts, has planned a three-week festival that includes 75 events. 

 

For full details, visit www.wintergreenperformingarts.org. 

 

The festival takes place at Wintergreen Resort in Wintergreen, VA.  There are many innovations this year, including the creation of a composition program as part of the Wintergreen Summer Music Academy.

LARRY ALAN SMITH WAS THE RECIPIENT OF

THE 2006 FORREST GOODENOUGH FELLOWSHIP

FOR COMPOSERS AND SONGWRITERS

 

Click here to read the WCDH press release
Text Box: VISIT THE WEBSITES OF BOTH ORGANIZATIONS! WINTERGREEN PERFORMING ARTS LARRY ALAN SMITH, ARTISTIC AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AMERICAN SONGFEST OF THE WOODSTOCK FRINGE LARRY ALAN SMITH, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Text Box: AN OPERA IN THE WORKS It Can’t Happen Here, an opera with a libretto by Wallace Norman - Details: TBA Text Box: THE LOTTE LEHMANN FOUNDATION Larry Alan Smith has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Lotte Lehmann Foundation in New York City. For information, click here. Visit the Lotte Lehmann Foundation website at www.lottelehmann.org

ATTENTION ALL FORMER STUDENTS:

 

Because teaching has been and continues to be such an important part of Larry Alan Smith’s professional life, he would like to build a list of all former private and classroom students.  If you have a website, please send him your address so he can add a link to your name.  His e-mail address is: larry@larryalansmith.com

 

Check back . . . the list is being developed.