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Palouse late afternoon

Thanks for visiting!

I just posted a new track, an arrangement I made of Beethoven's "Sonatine in C for piano and mandolin," from a CD I'm producing for mandolin virtuoso Richard Kriehn. You can hear it by clicking on "music" on the right side of this page. You can also check out two cuts from my new "Mosaic" CD.

In addition, I have decided to post a few things in the "music" section that have never been released, beginning with a recording I made in 2005 of my "Wind Quintet," performed by the WSU Solstice Woodwind Quintet, and a live recording of "Canntaireachd" for choir, a piece I composed in 1990.

In other exciting news, I have started a blog, which you can get to by clicking on "links" on the right, and I recently posted an article I published 'way back in 1992 on the 19th-century roots of the banjo in the "press" section. Now I really have to get do work on that gourd banjo CD, too!

Paul Ely Smith

musician, composer, performer, producer, instrument builder