More on UGA Music at the Superbowl
From Satellite TV News:
FOX Sports to offer an all-new presentation of the Declaration of Independence in what has become a FOX SUPER BOWL SUNDAY tradition. The Super Bowl is to unofficial holidays what the Fourth of July is to those officially recognized. So as 100 million Americans gather to watch the Pittsburgh Steelers take on the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XLV on Feb. 6The piece is set to a new original score titled “Declaration Anthem” composed by Steve Dancz of Placement Music, a new Atlanta-based company with a Grammy-Award winning team specializing in custom music and score. Dancz, who has composed and conducted numerous orchestral pieces for television and film, is director of Jazz Studies at the University of Georgia. The trumpet player on the composition is Charles Arnold, former US Navy fleet musician, who performed for President George H. W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, as well as former President Jimmy Carter. Arnold was a part of the first military band to visit Russia following the fall of the Soviet Union when the Seventh Fleet Band visited Vladivostok in 1992.