Hale Smith (June 29, 1925 – November 24, 2009) was an American composer, pianist, educator, arranger, and editor. He was one of the most notable African-American composers of the 20th century.
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“The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created.”
—Nancy Hale (b. 1908)
“We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)