Freeport concert honors composer Hale Smith
Photo credit: Newsday/Audrey C. Tiernan | The DrUUmatics with John Ward (far right) on lead djembe and Sharon Nanos (in sleeveless burgundy top) also on the djembe during the Hale Smith Day Concert at South Nassau Unitarian Universalist Congregation. (Feb. 5, 2012)
Hale Smith, one of the most influential black composers of the 20th century, lived in Freeport for nearly five decades and still there are residents of the South Shore village who don't recognize his name.
The South Nassau Unitarian Universalist Congregation wants to make Smith a household name in his longtime home, and Sunday held its third annual Hale Smith Day concert as part of its Black...
