About the Work - Asleep At Piegan - This is a musical impression by the composer of an afternoon break for a short rest during a day hike in the Piegan Pass at Glacier National Park in Northern Montana. (www.hikinginglacier.com/piegan-pass.htm)

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About the Composer - C. Dean Morris was born in 1957 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His formal training was at Ouachita Baptist University, where he studied for four years with Dr. W. Francis McBeth, composer-in-residence. In 1974, Dean received the first Clifton Williams Creative Music Award, sponsored by the Future Music Leaders of America. In 1979, he was named the winner of the Student-Ostwald Composition Prize. Dean began his Master’s program at North Texas State University, where he was a composition student of Martin Mailman. After a short time, Dean transferred to Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he completed his Master’s Degree as a composition student of Dr.William MacDavis. Upon completing his Graduate work, Dean served as Minister of Music in several churches in Colorado, Louisiana, and Maryland. After a long battle with Pancreatic Cancer, Dean passed away in Maryland in 2009. Dean is survived by his loving wife Lynne, his son Chris, and his daughter Callie.  

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I was fortunate to have been a classmate of Dean at Ouachita Baptist University. 1978, I was a transfer student from California who also went to Ouachita to study composition with Dr. McBeth. We quickly became close friends who shared many of our compositions as we were writing them for Dr. McBeth’s class. During a recent summer road trip, I met with Lynne, who passed on many of his manuscripts for me to engrave in Sibelius for preservation and prepare them for performance.

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Stephen Hill

SARAHTIM Music