Check out NOBC director, Dr. John Ware's interview on
WWNO radio 89.9 (All Things New Orleans), tonight (March 11, 2010)at 6:00 pm.
Ware is this year's Big Easy Classical Lifetime Achievement Award Winner.
You can also hear the interview online at http://www.wwno.org/
Dr. Ware is the Xavier University of Louisiana Keller Family Foundation Endowed Professor in Arts & Humanities.
He teaches voice, conducting, vocal diction, vocal literature and pedagogy and is the conductor for the Xavier Concert Choir. He has also been the director of Opera Theatre at Xavier.
An accomplished composer, on March 1, 2009 he premiered "Virtue on the Mountain Top," written in honor of the newly elected President, Barack Obama. Dr. Ware has been honored for his community work by the friends of the Amistad Research Center, the local Links Chapter and the Gambit "Big Easy Classical Music Awards. He has served on the Advisory Boards of the New Orleans Symphony Chorus and the Louisiana Vocal Arts Chorale. He has membership in the American Chorale Director's Association and the National Association of Teachers for Singing. He was recently elected to a 3-year term as a National Network Board member of the Lilly Fellow Program in the Humanities.
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