Larry Warkentin, D.M.A., music faculty emeritus, saw his cantata for choir, soloist and orchestra, "Sun, Moon and Stars," premiere at Tabor College May 10.

He also performed several of his compositions during Sound in the Lands, a conference of Mennonite composers and performers at Conrad Grebel in Waterloo, Ontario, June 6-8. They are Immigrant Laughter and Tears, Three Ancient Chinese Songs and Two Songs of Russian Mennonite Persecution.

He presented a paper titled "Art or Popular Music?--Finding Appropriate Responses to our Fractured World" at the conference.

This information was originally published in Pacific, July 2009.