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ROBERT HOUSTON BRIGHTTwo original a cappella choruses composed by Houston Bright, Assistant Professor of Music ^md Director of the Choral Division at West Texas State College, have been accepted for publication by Associated Music Publishers, Inc., New York, and will be placed in their choral catalog thLs year. Contracts were signed by the composer only last month.One of these choruses is entitled “Evening Song of the Weary,’’ and consists of an SATB setting of a poem by Felicia Dorothea Hemans.an early 19th century English poetess. The other composition, “Weep No More, Sad Fountains,” is also a mixed chorus setting of an Elizabethan lyric which was a favorite with many madrigal and ayre composers of the period.The young comjxser received the degree of B S. at W’est Texas State in 1938. and the M.A degree in 1940. He has completed more than two years of work on the Ph D in Musicology at the University of Southern California. He has studied and sung under some of the finest teachers and choral conductors on the West Coast, including Dr. Charles C Hirt, Director of the University of Southern California A Cappella Choir. Dr. George Hultgren, Conductor of the Los Angeles A Cappella Choir, and Dr Max T Krone, a former director of the Northwestern UniversityA Capiella Choir, a prominentchoral editor, arranger, and authority He is a composition student of Ernest Kanitz and Halsey Stevens.Every year the West Texas State College Choir presents a group of Prof. Bright’s compositions and arrangements. and some of his instrumental works are currently being ferformed at local concerts, notably .his Ballo Ironico (Ironic Dance*,and Iiis Canon for Brass Quartet. He is the author of an article on the madrigal which is to appear in a forthcoming issue of the South-! western Musician, and is a member of the Music Library Association, the American Musicologicai Society, and the Texas Music Educators Association
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Canyon News
Canyon, Texas, US
Thu, Mar 03, 1949
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