Duke Wind Symphony: A concert dedicated to Paul Bryan

A concert dedicated to Professor Emeritus Paul Bryan, featuring works he conducted, arranged, and commissioned during his legendary tenure at Duke. Special guests include Duke University Wind Symphony Alumni. Paul Bryan was Professor of Music and Conductor of the Wind Symphony at Duke University from 1951-1989. He received his Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Michigan and has published extensively about the music of the 18th century, particularly composer Johann Baptist Wanhal. In 1997, he was awarded the Music Library Association's Vincent H. Duckles Award for "Johann Wa¿nhal, Viennese Symphonist: His Life and His Musical Environment." As a conductor and educator, he led workshops and clinics in universities, colleges, and high schools across the U.S. and in Canada and Austria. He organized and led the Duke Wind Symphony's semester-long Programs in Vienna in throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Under his leadership, the Duke Wind Symphony performed concerts in Austria (Vienna, Graz, Lockenhaus, Mayrhofen, Berndorf, Bad Gleichenberg), Italy (Venice, Vicenza), Hungary (Budapest), Germany (Dresden, Leipzig, Mainz), and Czechoslovakia (Prague, Cheb). Professor Bryan was also conductor of the Durham Civic Choral Society 1959-67; Durham Savoyards 1963-67, 70, 1974-75, '77, '80; and the Durham Youth Symphony 1972-76.