Shirl jae atwell biography of christopher
Shirl Jae Atwell was born in Kansas City, Missouri in She earned a..
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Shirl Jae Atwell earned her Bachelor’s of Music Education degree from Kansas State Teachers’ College and a Master of Music Theory/Composition degree at the University of Louisville.
She also completed four years of post-graduate work in music composition at the University of South Carolina.
In 1984, Ms. Atwell won the Clifford Shaw Memorial Award for Kentucky Composers; was commissioned to write Fear Not, Little Flock for the 175th anniversary of the Little Flock Baptist Church; and saw the New York City debut of her first opera, Sagegrass.
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In 1991, another of her operas, Esta Hargis, was premiered at Emporia State University in Kansas, followed shortly by the 1992 debut of Handelian, a work for string orchestra premiered by the Jefferson County All-County Middle School Orchestra.
The Southern Baptist Seminary Orchestra in Louisville premiered her Movements Four South, an orchestral suite, in 1993. That year also saw the placement of