Greg Smith

Blow the Candle Out

Since 1955, Gregg Smith (b.1931) has been best known as the leader of one of the country’s premier choral groups, The Gregg Smith Singers, but he has been composing since he was five years old and his catalog of mature compositions includes over 400 works. Smith has a special affinity for Americana, and the Colonial tune Blow the Candle Out was first printed in 1720 in a publication entitled Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy.

--February 10, 2008 (UNF Chorale & UNF Chamber Singers)