135:, and directed the college's A Cappella Choir, which he founded in 1941. The various West Texas choirs (which included a larger Chorale and a women's choir, along with other, smaller ensembles) frequently toured the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma, and New Mexico, and they premiered many of Bright's works. His earliest published compositions are the choral pieces "Weep You No More, Sad Fountains" and "Evening Song of the Weary," both dating from 1949. In 1965, college president James P. Cornette, honoring Bright's twenty-five years of creative service to the college, granted him the title of Composer-in-Residence.
432:(NAfME/MENC) appointed a Bicentennial Commission to recognize, and promote the performance of, "significant" works by American composers. Two works by Bright — his Prelude and Fugue in F minor and his Passacaglia in G minor — were so honored in the commission's "Selective List of American Music for the Bicentennial Celebration," alongside music by such canonical U.S. composers as
570:"Houston Bright is Composer-in Residence and head of the Theory Department of West Texas State University," writes Clark F. Galehouse in notes accompanying a commercial recording of the woodwind quintet. "In the three movements of this suite, he injects fresh musical interest and enjoyable listening into the classic fast-slow-fast pattern."
255:, piano, and instrumental chamber ensembles, as well as a handful of songs for solo voice and piano. His music has been performed not only throughout North America and Europe but in South America, Taiwan, Japan, and Africa as well. Diverse choral and instrumental groups have performed (and recorded) his music, including the
344:, received its debut on November 1, 1966 by the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra and a special two-hundred-voice Festival Chorus, under the baton of Roller's successor, Dr. Thomas Hohstadt. The work was subsequently published by Shawnee Press as a score for organ and chorus, with the orchestral score and parts for hire.
46:. He was the son of a Methodist minister, the Rev. John R. Bright. Houston learned to read music and play the piano while still a small boy; he composed his first piece of music at the age of ten. In his teens he studied voice, clarinet, and cornet, as well as piano. He attended high school in Shamrock, in the
26:, known primarily for his choral works. The best-known of these is an original spiritual "I Hear a Voice A-Prayin'," but he wrote dozens of highly regarded pieces over the course of his career, including a number of instrumental compositions. Bright was, among his peers, well known and respected as a composer,
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Similarly, in singling out "Lament of the
Enchantress," Forrest Daniel, director of the Sisters (Oregon) Community Chorus, observed: "Shelley and Houston Bright, two very good artists. Houston Bright didn't really get his due. He lived in this little town in Texas and he had this magnificent talent."
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Throughout his three decades at West Texas, Bright was surrounded by, and worked with, considerable musical talent. Some of his early works (both choral and instrumental) were composed specifically with West Texas music ensembles in mind, and dedicated to them. Among his academic colleagues was Royal
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as ranking among his favorites in the choral repertory, Dr. Floyd
Slotterback, choral director and professor of music at Northern Michigan University, told an interviewer in March 2001: "Certain pieces kind of stick… I really enjoyed those Houston Bright pieces; the pieces sing well; he treats the
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after the composer's death. In the accompanying article ("Music for Brass Comes into Its Own"), Prof. John R. Shoemaker described the works so chosen as "outstanding" pieces of music numbering "among the most important in the literature." The compositions were selected by a group consisting of
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classical-music critics and members of the
National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors who were recognized as "specialists in the brass chamber-music field"; their wide-ranging list encompasses a variety of works by American and European composers such as
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in 1940 and took a full-time faculty appointment at that time. On June 5, 1941, he was wed to
Frances May Usery, a West Texas State piano instructor whom he had met while he was still a student. "Music brought us together," he later said. "She was my accompanist."
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Bright continued composing and teaching until his death, of cancer, on
December 8, 1970 in Canyon. He was 54 years old. His widow, the pianist and teacher Frances Usery Bright, donated his original manuscripts and other papers to the West Texas A&M University
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Houston Bright composed, on commission, numerous pieces for school choruses as well as for college and festival choirs in several states. In so doing, he wrote largely with student singers and journeyman musicians in mind. Yet, according to Nick
Strimple of the
459:(professor emeritus of music, Arkansas State University) ranks that composition as being among "Ten Works All Band Conductors at All Levels Should Study," categorizing the piece as "intelligently written, historically important," and "educationally worthwhile."
1241:. "Halsey Stevens, a professor of composition at USC Thornton for over 30 years, served as a mentor to USC Distinguished Professor Morten Lauridsen, current Composition chair Donald Crockett, Houston Bright, and other composers." Retrieved June 26, 2015.
1047:). Other works set sacred Christian liturgical texts (such as his "Kyrie Eleison," "Benedictus and Hosanna," and "Antiphonal Gloria"); still others set Bright's own original lyrics (including "Premonition," "Rainsong," and "Summer Evening").
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concerts; his brother, Weldon, sang tenor. (Weldon Bright, also musically gifted, went on to become a jazz pianist and organist, the leader of a regionally popular dance band, and music director of
Amarillo's
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Plainview Methodist Church choir in 1937, signed contracts this week for the publication of two a cappella choruses." Retrieved June 27, 2015.
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Plainview). After graduating from high school in 1932, he attended West Texas State. He organized a dance band, the "Kampus Katz," in the 1935–1936
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421:"Houston Bright combined academically correct form with fresh and brilliant scoring," write professors Norman E. Smith and Albert Stoutamire in their volume
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degree in music in 1938. Afterward he was the first student in his college to be designated as a "graduate assistant." He received his
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voice very nicely. And they're very attractive; I think they'll please people… Good repertoire is just good repertoire, period."
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Bright's best-known choral piece, the original spiritual "I Hear a Voice A-Prayin'" (1955), was composed for mixed chorus (
1226:; Amarillo, Texas; May 8, 1966. "Dr. Houston Bright Saluted on Silver Anniversary at WT," by Jean Ater, Amusements Editor.
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a global survey of the wind-ensemble genre. "He handled the colors of the band with skill and variety."
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The Choral Music of Houston Bright: A Descriptive Style Analysis.
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Bright, Houston. "The Composer Looks at the Choral Director." In
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Konzerte (2000) unter der Leitung von Heinz Ferlesch
1178:; Canyon, Texas; December 10, 1970. "Composer Dies."
1410:See Cipolla, Frank and Donald Hunsberger, editors.
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214:Elementary Counterpoint in Two Parts: A Modified
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1560:(Vol. 58, Nr. 1), pp. 36–39. (Paid access only.)
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634:"Sweet Wife," song for voice and piano; text by
625:"Simon Danz," song for voice and piano; text by
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182:Bright's professional memberships included the
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539:Prof. Jane Magrath cites Houston Bright's
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1459:Smith, Norman, and Albert Stoutamire.
1367:West Texas A&M University (n.d.).
1351:West Texas A&M University (n.d.).
1335:West Texas A&M University (n.d.).
1287:Texas Bandmasters Association (n.d.).
1272:West Texas A&M University (n.d.).
1099:Historical Dictionary of Choral Music.
1092:Choral Music in the Twentieth Century.
157:. Another colleague was band director
1571:Choral Music in the Twentieth Century
1395:Wiener Singakademie – Konzertarchiv.
1386:. Columbia Masterworks M 34134, 1976.
263:, the American Woodwind Quintet, the
222:West Texas State College Press (1958)
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907:Tol' My Cap'n (folksong arrangement)
303:III. Menuetto, in modo poco burlesco
1655:USC Thornton School of Music alumni
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877:Thou Wilt Keep Him in Perfect Peace
792:The People that Walked in Darkness
689:De Profundis (Out of Great Depths)
677:Clouds that Veil the Midnight Moon
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1640:American male conductors (music)
1512:Composers on Composing for Band,
921:The Sigh that Heaves the Grasses
453:Composers on Composing for Band,
294:Symphony in E minor (1957–1959)
1650:20th-century American composers
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1083:Herrington, John Scott (1992).
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969:Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
947:And the Posts of the Door Moved
699:Four Sacred Songs for the Night
115:The Early Tudor Part-Song from
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786:Now Deck Thyself with Majesty
259:, the Amarillo Symphony, the
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1354:Professor Emeritus Inductees
1321:Houston Bright: Choral Music
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981:Winter Night on the Mountain
975:When Spring Is on the Meadow
963:Watchman, What of the Night?
959:The Walrus and the Carpenter
918:Rough Wind that Moanest Loud
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1370:Houston Bright Scholarship
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1006:Trilogy for Women's Voices
978:When the Lamp Is Shattered
955:Walk-a With Peter and Paul
911:Trilogy for Women's Voices
859:Sunrise in the Orient (by
789:Now Sing We All His Praise
720:A Child's Garden of Verses
683:Could Ye Not Watch with Me
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1097:Unger, Melvin P. (2005).
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777:Lament of the Enchantress
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686:The Days that Are No More
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882:Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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752:I Hear a Voice A-Prayin'
692:Dirge for the Dead Moths
680:Come to Me, Gentle Sleep
496:Four for Piano: A Short
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1558:Music Educators Journal
1480:Music Educators Journal
1106:Mary Moody Northen Hall
1090:Strimple, Nick (2002).
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838:Song of the Meadow Lark
823:Sing a Song of Sixpence
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362:II. Nightrider's Lament
257:Mormon Tabernacle Choir
139:Brantley, the original
1290:Bandmaster of the Year
1251:Plainview Daily Herald
1113:Wind Repertory Project
950:Then Said I, Woe Is Me
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804:Rest Comes at Eve (by
735:Whole Duty of Children
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312:The Vision of Isaiah,
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940:The Vision of Isaiah
841:Star, Moon, and Wind
706:Compline (Nightfall)
535:In her wide-ranging
415:III. Allegro commodo
359:I. Indian Ceremonial
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334:Isaiah in the Temple
330:The Vision of Isaiah
306:IV. Allegro energico
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1499:The Clarinet Pages.
1494:The Best Band Music
783:Never Tell Thy Love
449:wind band repertory
412:II. Lento cantabile
409:I. Allegro moderato
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1338:Professors Emeriti
1212:The Shamrock Texan
1200:The Shamrock Texan
1188:The Shamrock Texan
1033:Christina Rossetti
966:We'll Sing a Glory
915:Fall, Leaves, Fall
896:II. Morning Prayer
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703:Vespers (Evensong)
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553:Three Short Dances
527:on an Interrupted
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1461:Band Music Notes,
926:Unseasonable Song
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848:Streets of Laredo
814:Sailor's Alleluia
666:Antiphonal Gloria
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477:in E minor (1952)
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597:Gunther Schuller
588:Legend and Canon
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1025:Thomas Hood
984:Winter Song
795:Premonition
765:Jabberwocky
669:August Noon
516:Quick Dance
484:Introspetto
390:Passacaglia
273:Fred Waring
159:Gary Garner
129:composition
56:school year
1614:Categories
1126:References
893:I. Introit
801:Reflection
758:Invitation
627:Longfellow
615:Solo Voice
525:Variations
103:Curt Sachs
85:degree in
60:New Mexico
52:Le Mirage,
888:Responses
829:Soliloquy
743:High Tide
726:The River
586:Bright's
508:Invention
340:or short
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1002:Rubaiyat
934:antiphon
811:Rhapsody
798:Rainsong
438:Gershwin
342:oratorio
177:Emeritus
121:Cornyshe
67:oratorio
820:Seaweed
501:(1957)
490:Toccata
442:Copland
406:(1968)
404:E minor
394:G minor
384:F minor
338:cantata
216:Species
117:Newarke
1043:, and
931:Advent
886:Three
718:From "
607:, and
564:Finale
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519:Finale
512:Ground
504:Notion
486:(1956)
475:Sonata
440:, and
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218:Method
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649:Psalm
529:Theme
510:on a
498:Suite
481:Rondo
463:Piano
434:Sousa
253:choir
208:Books
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1111:The
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131:and
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38:Life
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