Larry Alan Smith

Smith wrote this jazzy flute quartet for fun, interspersing a spoken phrase periodically within the music. In March 2016, Camerata Musicale Sulmonese (Sulmona, Italy) honored Italian composer Smith* w...

Composed in May 2015, Ti seguo. . . Mi segui was premiered at a 60th birthday celebration for Smith at Hartt School of Music, where he has been professor of composition since 1990. Playful arpeggiated...

For Three Flutes

For Two Harps (or Two-part Harp Ensemble)

Smith created this set of six brief scenes for Lucy Bowen McCauley, choreographer and artistic director of Bowen McCauley Dance in Arlington, VA. Bowen McCauley convinced former U. S. poet laureate Ri...

The 1975 flute solo One Hour to Madness and Joy is an ultradynamic performance piece - a study of tension and release, skittering and calm, with a final push to a forceful finale. For advanced flutist...

From 2006, Three Angularities is three diverse movements for solo oboe - a flowing Andante, a disjointed Allegro vivace, and a languid Lento. Three Angularities was written for his son James Austin Sm...

For Violin and Piano

For Tenor (or Soprano) and Guitar

Three dances serve as the inspiraton for this five-minute work. The first movement is a waltz in triple time with its characteristically strong first beat. The middle movement, a sarabande, is also in...

The March 2016 concert at Camerata Musicale Sulmonese (Sulmona, Italy) featured a number of world premieres of Smith's works, including the Ave Maria (below) and his Three Pieces for Piano. On a trip...

Smith's setting of the Ave Maria for two-part women's chorus was premiered in March 2016 at the Camerata Musicale Sulmonese in Italy. The festival honored the 'living Italian composer'* with a concert...

An original band composition from 1984 is in two parts - A Solemn Hymn opens the work with a stately air, ending in a whisper, and A Courageous Hymn finishes the set with authority.

For Eb Alto Saxophone and Piano

A commission by the Lotte Lehmann Foundation, Distance Separates Us Tonight was the required song for the Foundation's 2008 Cybersing Competition. This brief art song describes a sense of isolation an...

A commission by the Lotte Lehmann Foundation, Distance Separates Us Tonight was the required song for the Foundation's 2008 Cybersing Competition. This brief art song describes a sense of isolation an...

A commission by the Lotte Lehmann Foundation, Distance Separates Us Tonight was the required song for the Foundation's 2008 Cybersing Competition. This brief art song describes a sense of isolation an...