Harry Smith is an American television journalist who has worked as a senior correspondent for NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC. He hosted the CBS News morning shows The Early Show and its predecessor, CBS This Morning, for seventeen years. Smith departed CBS News in July to work as a correspondent for NBC News and the now-defunct newsmagazine Rock Center with Brian Williams. Since his debut in November , he has also worked as an anchor for MSNBC, providing midday live coverage of breaking news and events.
Background
Harry Smith was born on August 21, , in Lansing, Michigan. Harry attended Central College in Pella, Iowa, where he earned his degree in communications and theater. Smith began his broadcasting career working in radio, mainly in Denver, Colorado, from through
Relationships
Harry Smith is married to a sportscaster named Andrea Joyce. The couple has two sons and lives in New York City.
He is a cyclist who commutes to the NBC studios in New York City on a folding bike and rides a "racing" road bicycle.
Career
Smith began his broadcasting career with radio stations KHOW and KIMN in Denver, Colorado, and WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio, from until He worked for De
Harry Smith was an artist whose activities and interests put him at the center of the mid twentieth-century American avant-garde. Although best known as a filmmaker and musicologist, he frequently described himself as a painter, and his varied projects called on his skills as an anthropologist, linguist, and translator. He had a lifelong interest in the occult and esoteric fields of knowledge, leading him to speak of his art in alchemical and cosmological terms.
Harry Smith was born May 29, , in Portland, Oregon, and his early childhood was spent in the Pacific Northwest. Smith’s father, Robert James Smith, was a watchman for the local salmon canning company. His mother, Mary Louise, taught school on the Lummi Indian reservation. Robert Smith’s grandfather had been a prominent Freemason who was a Union General in the Civil War. Harry’s parents were Theosophists, who exposed him to a variety of pantheistic ideas, which persisted in his fascination with unorthodox spirituality and comparative religion and philosophy. By the age of 15, Harry had spent time recording many songs and rituals of the Lummi and Samish peoples and was compiling
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Raymond Foye sits down with John Szwed to discuss his recent biography of the experimental polymath.
Raymond Foye sits down with John Szwed to discuss his recent biography of the experimental polymath.
Harry Smith in profile, April 22, , New York. Photo: Allen Ginsberg, by permission of the Allen Ginsberg Trust
Raymond Foye is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn Rail. His most recent publication is Harry Smith: The Naropa Lectures – (). Photo: Amy Grantham
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John Szwed is the author and editor of many books, including biographies of Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, and Alan Lomax. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, and in was awarded a Grammy for Doctor Jazz, a book included with the album Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax.
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When Harry Smith died impoverished in Manhattan’s Chelsea Hotel in , few could have imagined the posthumous fame that would follow. He was a legendary figure in the rarefied world of underground film, but his Anthology of American Folk Music () would not be reissue
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Harry Smith: An Ethnographic Modernist in America
Harry Smith was an artist who delved into multiple disciplines in a quest to understand the structure and essence of what he considered universal patterns. He looked at the world through the eyes of an ethnographer and cultural anthropologist and had a voracious appetite for information. Eschewing standard ethnographic practices Smith explored both “high” and “low” art forms, mixing the local and the global and recombining these with a hallucinatory notion of “making it new.” For a select few in various disciplines Smith’s work has been recognized as dense, complicated and visionary. But in the years since his death, we have begun to develop a more holistic view of the connections between the various aspects of his artistic output.
Harry Smith was a musicologist, an experimental filmmaker and compiler of folklore; he was also adept as a painter, linguist, anthropologist, and magician. He collected books, records, artifacts, and sound recordings using them as the basis of his works of art, as well as the raw materials for his anthropological and musicological research
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