I wrote (just a couple of minutes ago, i fact): >[William Banfield is apparently an African-American composer and > professor at Indiana University. -Dave] Some more info found tucked at the bottom of a page of the IU Archives of African American Music and Culture: Dr. William C. Banfield, Curator and Founder of the Undine Smith Moore Collection, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Indiana University. He is also Composer-in-Residence at the Afro-American Arts Institute and Director of the Indiana University Soul Revue. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Music from the New England Conservatory of Music, Master's Degree in Theology from Boston University, and the Doctorate of Musical Arts (Composition) from the University of Michigan. Dr. Banfield's works include six symphonies, one opera, five concertos, two symphonic suites, seven chamber suites, three cantatas for orchestra and choir, four string quartets, music for mixed ensembles and solo instrumental works, and more than two hundred popular, gospel and jazz compositions. He has had compositions commissioned and performed by the Detroit Metropolitan Orchestra, the Savannah Symphony, the Thamyris Atlanta Chamber Players, the Plymouth Music Series, the Minnesota Symphonia, the Bloomington Camarata Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony and the Eastern Philharmonic. In 1994, the Akron Symphony, under the direction of Allen Balter, recorded Dr. Banfield's Symphony No. Six: Four Songs for Five American Voices on Tel-arch Records. Two of his compositions were recorded on Atlantic Records by the all female jazz ensemble Straight Ahead. I see a release of his chamber music has also been made available on Innova Records. An interesting interview with Banfield can be found at: http://php.indiana.edu/~afamarch/banfield.html Dave [log in to unmask] http://www.classical.net/