• DCI Alumni

    By: Victoria Donahoo

    I am a former member of the Troopers Drum & Bugle Corps and from the same area [...]

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  • Goodbye Robert..🕊

    By: Malik Deandre Henderson - Felton

    So sorry to see you go man thanks for touching the lives of mine, and many others. [...]

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  • Positive Impact

    By: Kim Benson

    Many individuals pass through our lives, and a few may leave a lasting mark, enriching us for [...]

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  • Fitzgerald Overture

    By: Anthony Susi

    My first introduction to Robert's music was in the early stage of my career as a Jr. [...]

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  • Brothers in Music.

    By: Bill McClellan

    Happy Heavenly Birthday Robert! We had a lot of fun in college (Band, Kappa Kappa Psi), as [...]

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  • Early Band Days

    By: Robert Sims

    In 1972, Opp High School was hosting a Band Clinic where some of the top players from [...]

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  • He Believed In The Best In You

    By: Spencer Mahoney

    I was blessed to meet Robert in the years I marched Magic of Orlando, starting in 1995, and [...]

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  • A phone call …

    By: Alexandre CARLIN

    I will always remember that morning of february 2022. I was going to a brass band championship, my [...]

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  • The Robert effect!

    By: John Fulton

    I met Robert at a marching band competition in 1983. I brought my band, Northeast High School, [...]

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  • “I’m a fan…”

    By: Peter Sciano

    I was lucky enough to know Robert in the last few years of his life after he [...]

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  • The Man that gave me my Path

    By: Gabriel Marcel Noel

    Robert W. Smith was a man that when I first met I didn’t quite fully understand, but [...]

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  • IYKYK 💜 💜 💜 💜

    By: Marc Kornfield

    31 years ago 😲, I attended my first Magic of Orlando rehearsal weekend. I arrived before the rehearsal [...]

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  • A Memory

    By: Will Boartfield

    The last time I saw and spoke to Robert my wife and I told him we were [...]

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  • Family

    By: Matthew Durst

    Robert was my dad’s high school band director. He was Roberts Drum Major at Clearwater High and [...]

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  • My mentor and friend

    By: William Doty

    Robert always took an active role in adjusting my “attitude “ when I was studying under him. [...]

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  • Composer and Head Band Director

    By: Aaron D. McMichael

    In 1999, while I was a student at Jones County Junior College in Mississippi, I had the [...]

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  • Grateful for the Opportunity

    By: Mack Deas

    I first met Robert at Midwest Band Clinic in December of 1988. We were both scheduled to [...]

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  • From Steve McLendon

    By: Steve McLendon

    First met Robert W Smith at Troy (State) University in the mid 70’s...From day one everyone knew [...]

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  • Beautiful friend

    By: Gianluca Sartori

    Forever in our heart!

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  • Jaylen Turner

    By: Jaylen Turner

    I met Mr.Smith on June 16th,2016 when I was 17 years old at the annual MIC Check [...]

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  • Celebration of Life Service Video

    By: Savannah Smith

    The Celebration of Life for Robert W. Smith was held in Troy, Alabama on September 27, 2023. [...]

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  • Composer

    By: Heather Hoefle

    From the day Robert called my cell phone in 2016 to tell me he would be publishing [...]

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  • Mr. Smith

    By: Johnny Folsom

    My first remembrance of Robert was when he had taken the job of band director at my [...]

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  • The meeting that changed my life

    By: Paris Foreman

    As a 14 year old boy I was at a music festival in down town Orlando with [...]

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  • Great family times

    By: Ben Hawkins

    My wife Cyndee and I met Robert when he and my sister Susan began dating, which led [...]

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  • Paying It Forward

    By: Joseph Benjamin Earp

    In 2017, Robert called me about his interest in one of my submissions to RWS Music Company. [...]

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  • RWS – Chief Inspiration Officer

    By: Timothy Loest

    Mother Teresa once said, “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.” I [...]

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