Discipline: Music Composition

Russell Smith

Discipline: Music Composition
MacDowell Fellowships: 1955, 1956
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Russell Smith (1927-1988) was a composer born in Tuscaloosa, AL, and grew up near Washington D. C. At Columbia University in New York, he studied piano, composition, and music theory and in 1981 he was awarded Munich's "Förderpreis für Musik."

Studios

Barnard

Russell Smith worked in the Barnard studio.

Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…

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