“A collaboration between the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra and Laurel Arts will commemorate the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001,” writes Kelly Urban in Monday’s (8/2) Tribune Democrat (Johnstown, PA). “Pittsburgh native Thomas Dougherty was the winner of a composition competition. He will compose a piece of music for three JSO players that speaks to the experience and response of the Somerset community during the period surrounding Sept. 11.… An exhibit, ‘Reflections of the Human Spirit: America’s County Responds to the Tragic Events of September 11,’ will be free and open to the public from Sept. 6 through 30 at Laurel Arts [in] Somerset…. Dougherty’s work will be composed for oboe, viola and harp, and will be premiered at the exhibit by JSO principal oboe, Stephanie Caulder; principal viola, Stephen Weiss; and principal harp, Christine Mazza. Maestro James Blachly said the JSO is honored to have been invited to perform two concerts at Flight 93 National Memorial on Sept. 10 and 11…. Blachly said Nancy Galbraith, John Levey and Baljinder Sekhon, chairs of the composition departments of Carnegie Mellon University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Penn State University, respectively, served as judges for the competition.”
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