Annual American Composers Update

James Sclater

Living in Clinton, MS, James Sclater is Professor of Music at Mississippi College. Paul York, cellist at the University of Southern Mississippi, has commissioned a concerto. Having recently completed Remembrance, for soprano and chamber orchestra, Sclater is in the last stages of work on a biographical study of Reginald Kell.

Premieres

The Mississippi College Chamber Choir, led by Richard Joiner, premiered A Son is Born, four Christmas motets.