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2008 Grammy-Winning Composer Joan Tower to visit Belmont University

Belmont University

March 10, 2008

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The Belmont University School of Music will honor 2008 Grammy- winning composer Joan Tower. Tower’s visit will include a lecture and a performance of her works by Belmont Camerata Musicale, in celebration of her 70th birthday. Tower will join the resident chamber ensemble for a performance of Tres Lent for cello and piano. Other works on the program include Petroushkates for piano, strings and winds, DNA for percussion ensemble, Wings for solo saxophone, and a new piano trio, For Daniel.

The performance will take place at the Belmont Heights Baptist Church on the Belmont University Campus. Belmont School of Music Faculty members Daniel Lochrie, clarinet, Keith Nicholas, cello, and Robert Marler, piano, will be joined by guest Erik Gratton, flute, for the concert. The four musicians played on the Nashville Symphony Orchestra’s recording Joan Tower: Made in America, which won two 2008 Grammys, Best Classical Album and Best Orchestral Performance. Tower’s work, Made in America, also won a Grammy for Best Classical Contemporary Composition. Also performing are Camerata regulars Kris Elsberry, piano, Celeste Myall and Elisabeth Small, violins, guest saxophonist Philip Barham, and the Belmont Percussion Ensemble directed by Chris Norton.

In addition, at 10:00 am, Tower will present a lecture in Massey Concert Hall, entitled Choreographing Sound, in which she will discuss her life as a composer, her approach and process in creating music, and present samples of her music.

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  Tickets: Free Admission

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  Dates:
  March 10, 2008

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  Monday 7:30pm

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  Belmont University-Belmont Heights Baptist Church

  2100 Belmont Blvd. Nashville, TN 37212

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