Music of Larry Alan Smith On July 18, 2006 at 7:30 p.m., at the Helen K. Persson Recital Hall at Palm Beach Atlantic University

West Palm Beach, FL (PAUL TURNER SINGERS) - Vocal music of Larry Alan Smith will be performed on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at 7:30 p.m., at the Helen K. Persson Recital Hall at Palm Beach Atlantic University.
The composer Larry Alan Smith, at the piano, will accompany singers from the Intermezzo Young Artists Development Program.

The program includes the "I sing because" song cycle and other compositions by Larry Alan Smith. The lyricist for the cycle, Paul Turner, will read the poems that are the basis for the songs.

Larry Alan Smith is this year's composer-in-residence for the Intermezzo Young Artists Development Program. 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, educator and arts executive. Many of today's outstanding soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras have performed and commissioned works by Larry Alan Smith. Upon hearing the world premiere of his one-act opera, Aria da Capo, the well-known Chicago-based critic, Claudia Cassidy, reported: 'This is remarkable opera theatre... Smith has an ear for flaring brilliance... All this seems to me a true talent, primarily because I want to hear Aria da Capo again.'

Paul Turner is a Boston-based opera and cabaret singer. His publishing credits include Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Nomad's Choir, Parnassus Literary Journal, and Poetry Motel.