Introduction

Biography

Smyth at­tend­ed the In­sti­tute for Mu­sic­al Art in New York, and played in the Me­tro­po­li­tan Op­era Com­pa­ny.

He al­so served as choir di­rect­or at church­es in At­lan­ta, Geor­gia, and In­di­an­apo­lis, In­di­ana, and as song lead­er for Sal­va­tion Ar­my tours with Maud Bal­ling­ton Booth, and Wil­bur Chap­man.

From 1913 on­ward, he was mu­sic di­rect­or at the Eu­clid Ave­nue Bap­tist Church in Cleve­land, Ohio.

He led songs at the na­tion­al con­ven­tion of the Am­er­ican Re­pub­li­can Par­ty in 1924, and for con­ven­tions of Ro­ta­ry In­ter­na­tion­al.

His works in­clude:

• Let’s Ad­ven­ture in Per­son­al­i­ty, 1941