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| | Missouri Classical Music News : Missouri Music Teachers Association |
 | | A search for Missouri lists, among others, works by composer John Zorn, a graduate of Webster College, Bob James (born in Marshall, Missouri), UMKC composers Chen Yi and Zhou Long, and of course Virgil Thomson (born and raised in Kansas City). |
 | | A UMKC University News article reports that Missouri composer Chen Yi, on the faculty at UMKC, has been elected fellow to the 225th class of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
 | | His conviction that the French language was unsuited to musical setting, and particularly to recitative, led him to evolve a genre in which, as he explained, "the spoken phrase was announced and prepared by the musical phrase". |
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