From his visit to NPR in 2002, early-music string virtuoso Hopkinson Smith performs music first published in 16th-Century France for solo lute. He also talks with NPR's Fred Child about the instrument ...

Taking a stroll off the beaten path of the classics finds us listening to rarely heard music for the lute — and its older Arabic precursor, the oud. From a performance in the NPR studios, lutenist ...

Hopkinson Smith has been called a poet of the lute, but today he brings his vihuela (vee-WHAY-lah) into the PT studio to play music by 16th-century Spanish composer Luis Milan (loo-EESS mee-LAHN). The ...

Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith, the eminent American author, engineer and artist will speak in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock on the "Old Fashioned Folk." As a writer, Mr. Smith has ...

Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith delivered a stirring lecture in the Living Room of the Union last evening on "American Mud, and Those it Spatters," in which he maintained that the United States shows a want of ...

Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith, engineer, artist, and author, will speak in the Union next Wednesday evening. Mr. Smith is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and is the author of a great ...

Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith will speak on "Mud" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open to members of the Union only. Mr. Smith first worked as a clerk in some ...

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