Robert w. smith biography

Robert W. Smith

This article is apropos the composer. For other uses of the name Robert Unguarded. Smith, see Robert Smith.

Robert Helpless. Smith is an American creator, arranger, and teacher.

Biography

Smith was inherent in the small town sequester Daleville, Alabama on October 24 1958 .[citation needed] He packed with high school in Daleville, aft which he left for Ilium State University, where he non-natural lead trumpet in the Plant of the South Marching Band.[citation needed] While at Troy, take action studied composition with Dr.

Disagreeable Yoder.

Upon his graduation from Ilium State with a Bachelor behove Music Education degree, Smith pursue his musical career in Southmost Florida, where he earned high-mindedness Master's degree in MediaWriting slab Production from the University all but Miami, while studying with Dr. Alfred Reed.[citation needed] He was soon hired by Columbia Movies Publications and later Warner Bros./Belwin Publications.[1] Smith's career with Delectable Bros.

continued until 2005, just as it was bought out building block Alfred Music Publishing.[2]

In 1997, Explorer returned to Troy, Alabama oppress become the Director of Bands at Troy State University, people the retirement of his longlived band director, Dr. Long. Metalworker would remain at Troy champion four years, directing the Straits of the South Marching Cluster and the Symphony Band.

Gravel 2001, he left Troy end up take a more full-time current with Warner Brothers Publications.[citation needed] His position with Warner owing to leaving Troy has taken him all over the world, deceit as guest conductor and clinician with many ensembles.

Smith's "New All right Rising" & "Don Quioxte" were nominated for the 8th Yearlong Independent Music Awards for Fresh Classical Album.

Compositions

Currently, Smith has refer to 600 published works, including brace symphonies.

Symphony No. 1, The Divine Comedy, was inspired toddler Dante's epic; Symphony No. 2, The Odyssey, was inspired gross the Greek epic of representation same name; and Symphony Cack-handed. 3, "Don Quixote", was divine by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's epic of the same title.[3]

Smith has also composed two output dedicated to solo instruments–-contemporary concertos for the flute family humbling the euphonium--entitled Gemeinhardt Suite, contemporary Willson Suite respectively.[citation needed]

Smith's go through with a finetooth comb "Into The Storm" was certain to commemorate the powerful 1993 winter storm that brutalized goodness eastern United States.

This lump is often worked into diverse themes and reset in dissimilar ensembles such as a exchange played by an orchestra, stand-in the flute ostinato as cool violin part; or otherwise unreceptive as a part of unmixed marching band show (See Tan Creek Marching Band).[citation needed]

Smith quite good a brother of Kappa Kappa Psi, having been initiated gap the Zeta Upsilon chapter engagement then Troy State University plug April 1977.

His work "To the Summit" is subtitled "Strive for the Highest," the adage of the fraternity. The person section of "To the Summit" is an arrangement of integrity Kappa Kappa Psi Fraternity Hymn.

He is now the head holiday the Music Industry program beget Troy University.

Other work

In addition resolve composing for bands, Smith has enjoyed success writing for unoriginal and bugle corps.

He confidential been a member of goodness Charioteers Drum and Bugle Party in Alabama in the mid-1970s. His first great success came in the mid-1980s while flair was writing for the Suncoast Sound, from Clearwater, Florida -- a tenure which included Suncoast's 1985 program, "A Florida Suite," the first completely original euphonious program ever done by simple drum corps.[1] He would consequent go on to write funding Magic of Orlando for a sprinkling years.

Until 2007, he wrote for the Glassmen Drum added Bugle Corps, of Toledo, Ohio.

Around 2002, Robert and his helpmate Susan L. Smith began connection work on a new endeavour, writing a fully integrated penalty curriculum that would begin tenuous elementary school and take group of pupils all the way through giant school. A design team adherent several music educators was row on row, and the result was Congregation Expressions.

Before the beginning of interpretation 2006–2007 school year, Troy Installation announced the re-hiring of Sculpturer to the position of Mc of the Music Industry program.[2] On December 14, 2006, Economist announced his appointment as Inspector of Product Development for depiction C.

L. Barnhouse Company, wallet an exclusive publishing arrangement work to rule the firm, effective January 1, 2007.

His wife, Susan Smith remains currently the band director past it the Saint James band.

Compositions

  • 'Twas shamble the Moon of Wintertime'
  • A Christmastime Hymn
  • Affirmation Overture
  • Africa: Ceremony, Song discipline Ritual
  • African Bell Carol
  • All Is Calm
  • America the Beautiful
  • Angels, from the Realms of Glory
  • Apollo Fanfare
  • Ash Lawn Echoes
  • At the Crossroads
  • Battlefield Earth
  • Boogie Woogie Roar blow one`s own tru Boy
  • Brazil: Ceremony, Song, and Samba
  • Buffalo Dances
  • By Loch and Mountain
  • Cameroon
  • Cantique rush Noel
  • Castle Lore
  • Celebration
  • Celtic Carol
  • Ceremonium
  • Chautauqua
  • Christmas Concerto
  • Christmas delight the Round
  • Covenant
  • Currents
  • Daphne
  • Dance Celebration
  • Dan
  • Danza
  • David
  • Debbie
  • Declaration in Blue
  • Derek
  • Discovery 1492
  • Don't Let the Sun Onwards Down on Me
  • Dramatico
  • Drummer's Christmas Carol
  • Encanto[3]
  • Eternal Peaks
  • Fanfare and Processional on doublecross Old English Carol
  • Furioso
  • Gemeinhardt Suite
  • Gladiator End result (featuring "Battle Theme" from Fighter and "Parade of the Charioteers" from Ben Hur)
  • Glorioso
  • God Bless loftiness U.S.A.
  • Greensleeves: A Fantasy
  • Holiday Fanfare
  • Herndon Exaltations
  • Huntington Proclamation
  • Hymnsong Variants
  • In a Gentle Rain
  • In the Bleak Midwinter
  • Incantations
  • Inchon
  • Into the Windstorm [4]
  • Ireland: Of Legend and Lore
  • Ithaca (from The Odyssey (Symphony Rebuff.

    2))

  • Jefferson: A Vision for America
  • Jingle Bells Forever
  • Journeys Through Time
  • King show consideration for Kings
  • Knights of the Royal Realm
  • Kronos
  • Let Heaven and Nature Sing!
  • Linus subject Lucy
  • Liturgical Fanfare
  • Liza Jane
  • Lullaby Carols
  • Montevista
  • Monument
  • Morpheus
  • Mystere
  • Mysterioso
  • Nocturnal Dances
  • North Bay Vistas
  • Northwoods: Of Might boss Mettle
  • Old Time Rock & Roll
  • On Eagle's Wings
  • On This Day Fake it Shall Ring (from Holst's Wintertime Suite, Mvt.

    1)

  • On the Travel Winds
  • On the Mall
  • Paradiso (from Excellence Divine Comedy (Symphony No. 1))
  • Patriots on Parade
  • Pavane (Pour Une Infante Defunte)
  • Portsmouth Overture
  • Proclamation
  • Prologue
  • Proud Mary
  • Provenance
  • Purgatorio(from The Seraphic Comedy (Symphony No.

    1))

  • Quintilian
  • Ragtime Medley
  • Repercussions
  • Rising Dragons
  • Rites of Tamburo
  • Rockin' Robin
  • Russian Nation Rhapsody
  • Rythmos
  • Sami's Lullabye
  • Semper Liberi
  • Serengeti Dreams
  • Songs suggest Earth, Water, Fire and Sky
  • Songs of Sailor and Sea
  • Spirit wages the Winds
  • Symphonic Suite from Reception Wars: The Phantom Menace
  • Tanoan Echoes
  • Tap Roots
  • The Ascension (from The Seraphic Comedy (Symphony No.

    1))

  • The For kids Carols
  • The Divine Comedy (Symphony Cack-handed. 1)
  • The Hunt With Belle Meade
  • The Gathering of the Yeomen
  • The Just in case Escape March
  • The Great Locomotive Trail [5]
  • The Great Steamboat Race
  • The Epic (from The Odyssey (Symphony Clumsy. 2))
  • The Inferno (from The Theological Comedy (Symphony No.

    1))

  • The Island of Calypso (from The Hike (Symphony No. 2))
  • The Maelstrom
  • The Journey (Symphony No. 2)
  • The Runaway Sleigh
  • The Second Storm
  • The Sound and birth Fury
  • The Spirit of Orpheus
  • The Celeb of Dreams
  • The Swarm (A Hostility Won With Hornets)
  • The Sword delineate Kings
  • The Symphony of Souls
  • The Direction of Dreams
  • The Tempest
  • The Winds present Poseidon (from The Odyssey (Symphony No.

    2))

  • Three Faces of Kilimanjaro
  • Tidings of Joy!
  • To Challenge the Ambition and Heavens Above
  • To Dance come to terms with the Fields of Glory
  • To Transport in the Secret Garden
  • To say publicly Summit! (Strive for the Highest)
  • Twelve Seconds to the Moon
  • Twilight Evolution Falling
  • Two Beethoven Sketches
  • Ukrainian Bell Carol
  • Ultimatum
  • Valdres
  • Valiance (A Heroic Overture for Band)
  • Variant on an Old English Carol
  • Variations on "Deck the Halls"
  • Warm-Ups miserly Outdoor Winds and Percussion
  • Wassail
  • When Season Takes Flight
  • Where the Black Jingo Soars
  • Wild Wild West
  • Willson Suite
  • Winged Victory

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