daniel smith

HELLO HELLO! It was interesting, last night, to attend a performance mixing shocking music from the time of Beethoven, Stravinsky, etc. with shocking music from today (Webern, Varese, Lim, Scelsi, etc.). Parts of works included were Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 (where his teacher, Haydn, walked out of in disgust after hearing it – however today [...]

HELLO HELLO! Well, the site has been up and running for a few days now (thank you for visiting!) – we would love to hear any feedback you have at all! Just post a comment under this blog entry. Good things, bad things, suggestions, additions you would like to see, any problems, etc. We really [...]

Here I am, surrounded in paperwork, phone numbers, email addresses, trying to find some sponsorship dollars to cover the myriad of costs involved with a recital I’m trying to organise for later this year. After emailing, writing to and phoning over 100 business’ (small, large, local, music related), not one is willing to donate even [...]

Welcome to the new danielsmithonline! A huge thankyou to one of my best friends in the whole world, Andrew, who has designed this brand new website! He has done the most amazing job – a real work of art and spent countless hours on it – thank you Andrew, I love it. We hope you [...]