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See the performance Feb, 14 2015. Learn more: http://ums.org/performance/ums-choral-union-mendelssohns-elijah/

Jerry Blackstone- Grammy Award-winning conductor Jerry Blackstone is Director of Choirs and Chair of the Conducting Department at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance where he conducts the Chamber Choir, teaches conducting at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and administers a choral program of eleven choirs. In February 2006, he received two Grammy Awards (“Best Choral Performance” and “Best Classical Album”) as chorus master for the critically acclaimed Naxos recording of William Bolcom’s monumental Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Learn more about Jerry: http://www.music.umich.edu/faculty_staff/bio.php?u=blacksto

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