Cellist Marston Smith was encouraged to play cello early in his life by his parents and he won may music awards in school and in college he had the opportunity to perform the Haydn Cello Concerto in D with an orchestra. Quite the thrill to be in front of an orchestra he wrote a comedy cello concerto based on Haydn’s called the Hydrogen Cello Concerto and performed this with symphony orchestras. He was contracted to play in the big Hollywood film“The Jazz Singer” that starred Neal Diamond and this lead to years as a Hollywood studio musician with the Sid Sharp Strings and with Charles Veal’s string sections for Motown records.
100’s of movies and records were recorded.