[250] MTSU Professor Awaits Classical Grammy Award Results

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jan. 6, 2010
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081; WMOT-FM, 615-898-2800

MTSU PROFESSOR AWAITS CLASSICAL GRAMMY AWARD RESULTS
Recording Engineer John Hill Talks About Nomination on “MTSU on the Record”

(MURFREESBORO) – MTSU recording industry professor John Hill will talk about his work on a Grammy-nominated record at 8 a.m. this Sunday, Jan. 10, on “MTSU on the Record” with host Gina Logue on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org).
Hill was one of the engineers on “Ravel: L’Enfant et les sortileges.” It is nominated in the category of Best Classical Album in this year’s Grammy Awards, which are slated to be broadcast at 7 p.m. CST, Sunday, Jan. 31, on CBS.
The Nashville Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Alastair Willis performed the music from Maurice Ravel’s one-act opera at Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville with the Chattanooga Boys Choir, the Chicago Symphony Chorus, the Nashville Symphony Chorus and eight solo vocalists. The album on the Naxos label was produced by Blanton Alspaugh, and Mark Donahue co-engineered the recording with Hill.
“L’Enfant et les sortileges,” or “The Child and the Spells,” tells the story of a destructive child who throws and breaks her personal possessions only to see them come to life and rise up against her to teach her a lesson. The singers and musicians portray the objects, as well as the garden plants and animals the child also has abused.
Hill has been recording engineer for the Nashville Symphony since 2000. He joined the MTSU Department of Recording Industry in 1992. He teaches Critical Listening, Advanced Audio Recording and Production Seminar II.
For more information about “MTSU on the Record,” contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.

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With three Nobel Prize winners among its alumni and former faculty, Middle Tennessee State University confers master’s degrees in 10 areas, the Specialist in Education degree, the Doctor of Arts degree and the Doctor of Philosophy degree. MTSU is ranked among the top 100 public universities in the nation in the Forbes “America’s Best Colleges” 2009 survey.