(October 20, 2011)

Contact: Dena Pruett, Centenary Marketing & Communication, 318.869.5715

Hurley Faculty Member Featured Soloist for Longview Symphony

SHREVEPORT, LA — Chandler Teague, Centenary lecturer in Music, will be the featured soloist for the opening concert of the Longview Symphony season on Saturday, October 22. The performance will be held at S.E. Belcher Jr. Chapel and Performance Center at LeTourneau University.

Musical Celebration

Teague will be performing the "Concerto for Solo Percussion and Chamber Orchestra" by Richard Rodney Bennett. The concerto is in four movements and lasts about 26 minutes. The symphony's performance will also feature Gabriel Fauré's "Pavane, Op. 50" and Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67."

Chandler Teague is an alumnus of Centenary College, and has been the percussion teacher in the Hurley School of Music since 1979. He has been the Principal Timpanist and Percussionist of the Longview Symphony since 1980. He holds the same position with the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra and Opera East Texas. Teague has performed with the St. Louis Symphony, the Municipal Opera Association of St. Louis, and popular entertainers such as Jerry Lewis, Don Rickles, Gladys Knight, and Nancy Wilson and with touring productions of A Chorus Line, South Pacific, Pippin, and the Ice Capades.

Teague received the 2008 Music Fellowship Award from the Shreveport Regional Arts Council.

Since 1968, the Longview Symphony has provided live orchestral performances of classical music to audiences in Longview, Tx. For more information on the upcoming performance, visit www.longviewsymphony.org.

About Centenary College of Louisiana

Centenary College is a private, four-year arts and sciences college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Founded in 1825, it is the oldest chartered liberal arts college west of the Mississippi River and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Centenary is one of 16 colleges and universities constituting the Associated Colleges of the South and has been recognized as "One of the Best 371 Colleges" by the Princeton Review and one of "America's Best Colleges" and one of "America's Best Private Colleges" by Forbes.com. In 2008 Centenary College celebrated 100 years in Shreveport and Bossier City.