Local composer to conduct Mass concert in New York

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Local composer to conduct Mass concert in New York

Local composer, author and music specialist at Elm Creative Arts School in Milwaukee, Wallace McClain Cheatham will be conducting Franz Peter Schubert’s Mass In G Major for solo voice, chorus and full orchestra in May, 2021 at New York’s prestigious Carnegie Hall.

Dr. Cheatham was a public school music teacher for more than three decades.

He has been listed as a noteworthy music educator by “Marquis Who’s Who.”

Dr. Cheatham’s research dealing with opera as it relates to the African American experience has been published in internationally circulated journals of scholarship.

His book is, “Dialogues On Opera and The African American Experience.”

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