Friday, April 5, 2013

Eric Conway: 'Simmie Knox is also known locally for his sculpture of the former director of the Morgan State University Choir, Dr. Nathan Mitchell Carter!'

Dr. Nathan Mitchell Carter, Jr. (1936-2004)
Simmie Knox, Sculptor

Yesterday AfriClassical posted: 'The Art of Simmie Knox': Presidential Portrait Artist Visits Morgan Thursday, April 11, 2013, 1-4 PM, Murphy Fine Arts Building - Recital Hall

Dr. Eric Conway writes:


Simmie Knox is also known locally for his sculpture of the former director of the Morgan State University Choir, Dr. Nathan Mitchell Carter! What a great Morgan Connection!


Dr. Nathan M. Carter: January 6, 1936 - July 15, 2004

A native of Selma, Alabama, Nathan Carter was Morgan State University’s Chairperson of the Department of Fine Arts, Director of the Performing Art Series, and Director of the acclaimed Morgan State University Choir. He was a graduate of the Hampton Institute, the Juilliard School of Music (with honors), and the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Prior to Dr. Carter’s joining the faculty of Morgan State University in 1970, he was the Choral Director and Chairperson of the Division of Music at Knoxville College, where his superior choirs were famed for their tours throughout the United States.

Dr. Carter had been president of the Maryland Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association and music consultant-conductor at the Baltimore School for the Arts. He was the Headmaster of the New Shiloh Baptist Church, School of Music, Baltimore, Maryland. He had frequently been engaged as guest conductor, lecturer, adjudicator and clinician throughout the United States, including Harvard University, University of Utah, University of Connecticut, Gettysburg College (where he was cited for the year visited as the “person who contributed most to the Department of Music”), and many other locations across the country. He had appeared as lecturer with Eva Jessye at the Cleveland Orchestra’s Community Music Project, and as guest conductor with the Detroit Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra, performing his own orchestral/ choral arrangements.

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