Catherine P. Smith (1933-2009)

Catherine Parsons Smith has published extensively on American music and musicians of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. Her books include William Grant Still (U of Illinois Press, 2008, a biography), Making Music in Los Angeles (U of California Press, 2007), William Grant Still: A Study in Contradictions (California, 2000, essays and sources), and Mary Carr Moore, American Composer (U of Michigan Press, 1987, with C.S. Richardson). A collection of essays on American “others” is in progress. At UNR, she taught music history and flute. She served as principal flute of the Reno Philharmonic until her retirement. She holds advanced degrees from Stanford and Northwestern, and has performed with Baroque flute, and published on eighteenth-century performance practice.