YOUNG COMPOSERS FEATURED IN LIVING MUSIC CONCERT NOV. 5 AT UNION UNIVERSITY
JACKSON, October 22-- Two young, award-winning West Tennessee composers will perform their works at a Living Music Concert Tuesday, November 5, at 8 p.m. in Union University's Savage Memorial Chapel.
Dawson Hull, 12, of Humboldt will perform "Nocturne in C Minor," a piano piece he composed at age ten. This piece was a prize-winning selection in the 1996 National Guild of Piano Teachers' Composition contest.
Anna Enright, 13, of Memphis will perform her piano composition titled "Proverbs 1:5," a winner in the 1995-96 Music Teachers National Association's Junior High Composition Contest.
Other performances on the program include baritone Michael Penny, accompanied by pianist Ron Boud, performing David Ward-Steinman's "Children's Corner Revisited." Pianist Terry McRoberts will perform Mark Francis' "Two Reveries for Piano" and will accompany bass Joe Blass on Jacques Ibert's "Chansons de Don Quichotte."
The Union University Singers, under the direction of Kenneth Hartley, will perform Ralph E. Hudson's "Satisfied" as arranged by Robert E. Mulloy and Moses Hogan's arrangement of "My God is So High."
Also on the program, Union's chamber choir, under the direction of Andrew Roby, will present Nathaniel Dett's arrangement of "Better Be Ready." Concluding the program are the Union University Singers, under Roby's direction, performing William Dawson's arrangement of "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel."
All music performed in Union's Living Music series was composed within the last 100 years, with a major emphasis on music composed within the last 50 years. The concert is free and open to the public.
