Christine Gangelhoff: The Nassau Guardian: [Bahamas National Youth Choir] Founder Cleophas Adderley passes

The Nassau Guardian: Cleophas Adderley receives the Lifetime Achievement Icon Award at Melia Nassau Beach resort in June 2017 AHVIA CAMPBELL

Christine Gangelhoff sends us this article from The Nassau Guardian:

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Adderley is the composer of "Our Boys", the first Bahamian grand opera, which was also the first opera to have been written and performed in the English-speaking Caribbean; and the composer of the first Bahamian Concert Mass, "Missa Caribe".   

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Hello Bill, Thank you so much for posting. I hope all is well with you and yours.

Best wishes, Christine Dr. Christine Gangelhoff, Coordinator of Music Department, University of The Bahamas