Family
Gordon W. Smith was married, until her death in 1998, to Beverley Taylor Smith, a Fort Worth civic leader, actress, and host in the late 1950s and early 1960s of a local television show, the Ann Alden Show, who was also for many years chairman of the Cliburn Concerts division of the Van Cliburn Foundation. In his late wife’s honor, Smith and his son and daughter, Gordon Dee Smith and Beverley Blaine Smith, have funded the Beverley Taylor Smith Award for the Best Performance of a New Work, which is awarded to a competitor at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition every four years for the best performance of a new work by an American composer, chosen through the American Composers Invitational of the Van Cliburn Foundation.
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