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ROBERT L. DONAHUE
earned degrees from University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of
Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and Cornell University. His
teachers included Cecil Burleigh, Hunter Johnson, Robert Palmer,
Benjamin Johnston, and Karel Husa. Dr. Donahue has taught at
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (1964-67) and at Spelman College in
Atlanta (1967-99).
78 of Donahue’s compositions
have been published by a variety of major publishers. Among his
commissioned works are saxophone music for Kenneth Deans of University
of Georgia, for Lawrence Gwowdz of University of Southern Mississippi,
for Myron Munday of Spelman College, and for Bruce Weinberger of the
Rascher Saxophone Quartet.
Other commissions include four
years of choral sight-reading for the Georgia Music Educators
Association festivals and works for the Atlanta Symphony Brass
Quintet, and for the Thamyris ensemble in Atlanta.
Dr. Donahue’s Suite No. 1
for Wind Quintet won Montclair State University's 20th anniversary
composition contest, and his Sonata No. 3
for piano won the
category award at the Delius Festival in Jacksonville.
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