Gregg Smith Singers
The Gregg Smith Singers is a mixed chorus from the United States, directed by Gregg Smith (August 21, 1931 – July 12, 2016). The group, which comprises 16 singers, was founded at an all-Japanese Methodist church in West Los Angeles, California in 1955, while Smith was studying for his master's degree in music at the University of California, Los Angeles. The group moved to New York in 1970.
The group's repertoire ranges from the colonial-era American compositions of William Billings to contemporary works by Morton Feldman as well as many works by Smith himself. They have also performed works by William Duckworth, Arnold Schoenberg, Elliott Carter, Charles Ives, Earle Brown, Edwin London, Blas Galindo, Jorge Córdoba, Harold Blumenfeld, Irving Fine, Morton Gould, William Schuman, Louise Talma, Arthur Sullivan, and Ned Rorem, as well as early music by composers such as Giovanni Gabrieli and Heinrich Schütz. They have also made a well received yuletide album entitled "Christmas Songs from around the World" whose arrangements have also been performed by other choruses, chorales, and choirs as well.
The Gregg Smith Singers have toured the United States 40 times, in addition to 16 tours of Europe, and three visits to Asia. It has recorded over 100 albums, on the Albany, Columbia, Cp2, CRI, Crown, Koch International Classics, Lovely Music, New World, Newport Classic, Sony, Crown, Everest and Vox labels.
The Gregg Smith Singers have performed with numerous orchestras and worked with Igor Stravinsky for 12 years beginning in 1959, until the composer's death in 1971. The group has received three Grammy Awards.
External links
- Gregg Smith Singers official site
- All-Music Guide entry for Gregg Smith Singers
- All-Music Guide entry for Gregg Smith
- Gregg Smith Singers page
- Gregg Smith Singers information[permanent dead link]
- "Atonal Choir", from Time magazine, 1961
- Autobiographical sketch by Gregg Smith
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- WGBH (FM) (1951)
- Maro and Anahid Ajemian (1952)
- Herman Neuman (1953)
- Green Bay Symphonietta (1954)
- George Szell (1955)
- Robert Whitney (1956)
- Howard Hanson / Juilliard String Quartet (1957)
- Thor Johnson (1958)
- Martha Graham / Jack Benny (1959)
- Howard Mitchell / Oliver Daniel (1960)
- Helen Thompson / William Strickland (1961)
- Bethany Beardslee / Hugh Ross / Samuel Rosenbaum (1962)
- Carl Haverlin / Claire Reis (1963)
- Walter Hinrichsen / Margaret L. Crofts / Max Pollikoff (1964)
- Henry Cowell / Avery Claflin / Elizabeth Ames (1965)
- Henry A. Moe / Lawrence Morton (1966)
- WBAI / Fromm Foundation (1967)
- Aaron Copland (1968)
- Group for Contemporary Music (1969)
- Otto Luening / Harris Danziger / Third Street Music Settlement School (1970)
- Alice M. Ditson Fund (1971)
- Leopold Stokowski (1972)
- MacDowell Colony (1973)
- Teresa Sterne (1974)
- Nelson Rockefeller (1975)
- Gunther Schuller (1976)
- Arthur Weisberg (1977)
- James Dixon (1978)
- Ralph Shapey (1979)
- John Duffy / Meet the Composer / Joseph Machlis (1980)
- Carter Harman (1981)
- Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music (1982)
- Lukas Foss (1983)
- Opus One / Max Schubel / Ernest S. Heller (1984)
- Nicolas Slonimsky (1985)
- Raymond Des Roches (1986)
- Francis Thorne (1987)
- American Music Center (1988)
- Betty Allen / The Harlem School of the Arts / Mimi Stern-Wolfe (1989)
- Center for New Music (1990)
- Boston Musica Viva (1991)
- Cleveland Chamber Symphony (1992)
- Leonard Slatkin (1993)
- Society for New Music (1994)
- Minnesota Composers Forum (1995)
- Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group (1996)
- Speculum Musicae (1997)
- David Alan Miller (1998)
- Lou Rodgers (1999)
- Gregg Smith Singers (2003)
- Fred Sherry (2007)
- Harold Rosenbaum (2008)
- Phyllis Bryn-Julson (2009)
- innova Recordings (2012)
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