World Premiere of 'I Sing Because' - a Song Cycle by Composer Larry Alan Smith and Poet Paul Turner

Holiday Island, AR (PAUL TURNER SINGERS) - On a program of original music and poetry by Larry Alan Smith, the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow's (WCDH) 2006 Forest Goodenough Fellowship for Composers and Songwriters recipient, the song cycle "I sing because" will have its world premiere performance. Mr. Smith wrote the song cycle based on poems by Paul Turner during his spring 2006 stay at WCDH. This program includes songs and poems that are rendered by the artists of the Opera in the Ozarks.
The concert date is June 11, 2006 at 3:00pm, at the Holiday Island Community Church in Holiday Island, Arkansas.

The concert is presented by The Communication Arts Institute, Opera in the Ozarks, and the Holiday Island Community Church. For more information, call the Writers' Colony at 479-253-7444.

Praised by the New York Times as a 'young composer of great gifts," Larry Alan Smith has developed an international reputation as a composer, performer (pianist and poet), educator (Juilliard School and the Boston Conservatory) and arts executive. An award-winning and prolific composer, Larry is represented and published by the Theodore Presser Company, Bourne Music, E.B. Marks, Colla Voce Music and Tallow Tree Music Publishing. He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and is currently Professor of Composition at the Hartt School and Artistic Director of American SongFest at the Woodstock Fringe in New York. On April 1, 2006, he became Executive Director and Artistic Director (designate) of Wintergreen Performing Arts in Virginia. For more information about Mr. Smith, visit: https://www.larrayalansmith.com

Paul Turner's publication credits include Nomad's Choir, Parnassus Literary Journal, Poetry Motel, and Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. He has been a featured poet with the Agapé Poetry Series in Boston, and has read publicly at Barnes and Nobles and at Borders. For more information about Mr. Turner, visit: https://www.liricotenore.com .