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Charles Joseph Smith was born on October 22, 1970. He started his composing seriously at the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University in 1990, where he took composition with Robert Lombardo and a composition seminar class with Patricia Morehead, and performed his "Carmen Fantasy" for piano during a student composition recital in 1992. He got a B.M. in Piano in 1994, cum laude.He continued his piano studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he got a M.M. in Piano in 1995, and a D.M.A. in Piano Performance and Literature in 2002. While at the university, he continued composing a lot more compositions.
He composed over 700 compositions, most of them for the piano alone, and started getting into the world of electro-acoustic composition in 1994, where he had composed MIDI compositions as well, which he uses for tape music. His music ranges from commercial all the way to classical and even experimental compositions. In addition to his campus accomplishments, he had some success as a pianist abroad. He attended the French Piano Institute in Paris in July 2000 and won an Honorable Mention in their final recital and competition. He went to Italy in 2001 to compete in the IBLA Grand Prize International Competition in Sicily, where he won an Honorable Mention for Musicianship. In the same year, he also performed in a master class under famous Hungarian pianist Csaba Király at the International Piano Master Class in Budapest. In March 2005, he performed his contemporary solo piano composition "Smooth Suspense" at the School of Designing a Society House Theater weekend in Urbana in March 2005. . In October 2005, he attended his first electro-acoustic composition conference, Electronic Music Midwest, at the Kansas City Kansas Community College, (in Kansas City, KS) , where his original tape composition, "Synth vs. Synth", was featured. In February, 2006, Charles participated in the Black History Celebration concert sponsored by the Chicago Music A
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He composed over 700 compositions, most of them for the piano alone, and started getting into the world of electro-acoustic composition in 1994, where he had composed MIDI compositions as well, which he uses for tape music. His music ranges from commercial all the way to classical and even experimental compositions. In addition to his campus accomplishments, he had some success as a pianist abroad. He attended the French Piano Institute in Paris in July 2000 and won an Honorable Mention in their final recital and competition. He went to Italy in 2001 to compete in the IBLA Grand Prize International Competition in Sicily, where he won an Honorable Mention for Musicianship. In the same year, he also performed in a master class under famous Hungarian pianist Csaba Király at the International Piano Master Class in Budapest. In March 2005, he performed his contemporary solo piano composition "Smooth Suspense" at the School of Designing a Society House Theater weekend in Urbana in March 2005. . In October 2005, he attended his first electro-acoustic composition conference, Electronic Music Midwest, at the Kansas City Kansas Community College, (in Kansas City, KS) , where his original tape composition, "Synth vs. Synth", was featured. In February, 2006, Charles participated in the Black History Celebration concert sponsored by the Chicago Music A
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A Jingle for Calvin Klein JeansI am imagining setting the jingle's lyrics to music, and this short text has 8 lines with an ABABABAB form.
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Montreuil Sounds like a War Zone as it Prepares to Celebrate the Bastille--July 2001This is a summarized first-hand account of the noisy Bastille Day preparations that I experienced in Montreuil, a suburb in Paris, in the summer of 2001. The firecracker detonations made a fright in my European travel.
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Auras of Franz LisztThis is a haiku using the 5-7-5 syllable format for lines 1, 2, and 3. The whole poem pays homage to this 19th-century pianist and composer who had been known to have invented the modern piano recital.
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The Piano Teacher Vs. The BreadThis is a short story about a piano student who saves a piano teacher after the teacher chokes on a piece of bread. Since the University of Illinois was my alma mater, and was very familiar with its surroundings, I used that as the setting for this story.
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Flashback 2006---Going Back to the Chicago-like East Called New YorkI focus on several encounters that I witnessed in the city. It is a mixture of seeing the traditional side of the town...and a bit of the non-traditional side as well.
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Little Lily--A Dance PoemThe structure is based on flash fiction format, and has about 18 lines. Except for the first 2 lines, there is the rhyme scheme of AA BB CC DD.
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The Joy of Music and DanceThis is probably a brief memoir on how two of my favorite performing arts genres helped me to not only improve my creativity...but also to deeply enhance my whole life.
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Dreaming of the Right TimeThis is an brief, open-form poem focusing on my surrealistic experience of surfing at Waikiki Beach in Hawaii. There is a slight allegory in the poem when I use "hot dog", which is a word related to the surfboard.
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The Day the French Soccer Team Almost Pulled Off a 2006 World Cup VictoryThe way the game went was tense even though this was a low-scoring game. The first score was on a penalty kick for one team in period 1, and then afterwards, another goal from a corner kick from the other team in period 2.
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An Overview of the Champaign-Urbana's Boneyard Arts FestivalThis tells a summary of what usually happens in this famous arts festival that attracts not just the University of Illinois community in Champaign-Urbana,, but also those outside of that community.
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An Overview of Dancing with the StarsThis article focuses on the outline of this famous dancesport reality show that happened several years ago. Focuses on the types of dances done in the competition, the judges, and overall events happening in this show.
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Dancing with the Stars Lightning Round: A New Birthday Party GameThis birthday party game has the fever of charades but focuses on a trendy happening of the appreciation of dancesport through the TV program "Dancing With The Stars."
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Bastille Day in Paris: How to Get Through a Noisy Celebration of Partying and FirecrackersThis guide focuses on the noisy parts of Bastille Day in Paris, particularly the use of firecrackers, which are akin to use of such devices on Independence Day on July 4 in the United States.