Oberlin Conservatory Black Musicians’ Guild Presents Composer Anthony Kelley By Charity Johnson ‘99
			The Oberlin Conservatory Black Musician's Guild presents its second forum, which will feature composer Anthony Kelley, Assistant Professor of Composition at Duke University. He will be speaking on "The Undeniable Influence of African and African-American Music on Art Music" on Monday, December 3, at 4:30 P.M., in Bibbins Room 223. His lecture will investigate the music of major composers like Dvorak, Bartok, Stravinsky, Barber, and Adams in terms of elements of African and African-American approaches to music making. The forum is open to all interested. Kelley received his B.A. and A.M. from Duke University in 1991, and is a Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley. He joined the music faculty at Duke in the fall of 2000 after serving as Composer-in-Residence with the Richmond Symphony for three years under a grant from Meet the Composer. Last season, the Richmond Symphony premiered his piano concerto, Africamerica, with soloist Donal Fox, and in 1998, the American Composers Orchestra gave the premier performance of a commissioned work, The Breaks, under the direction of Gerard Schwartz. Kelley's music has also been performed by the Baltimore, Detroit, Atlanta, Oakland East Bay, Marin (CA), and San Antonio symphony orchestras. His awards and honors include the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Institute and Academy of Arts and Letters, and composition fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.
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