A fourteen-track digital CD audio entitled ?AMAZING GRACE?, produced by Armison Dzokoto a director of music at the Music Department of the University of Ghana, would be formally launched tomorrow Saturday 4th November 2006.
The event, scheduled to take place at the K.A. Busia Conference Hall of the University of Ghana, would be witnessed by senior citizens and senior military officers among other distinguished invited guests.
Speaking to the ADM in a short interview on Wednesday, Armison Dzokoto said AMAZING GRACE is a contemporary arrangement of selected orthodox hymn tunes suitable for contemplative as well as danceable church functions. He said AMAZING GRACE appeals to the musical taste of the sophisticated and is ideal also for family devotions. Its main objective, he said, is to ?integrate the orthodox and non-orthodox churches, the young, and the old?.
?The tracks consist of such evergreens as: I Surrender All, Be Still My Soul, Amazing Grace, How Great Thou Art, I Am Yours, Fairest Lord Jesus, Blessed Assurance, Old Rugged Cross, Nearer My God, Holy, Holy, Holy, It Is Well, Rock of Ages, What A Friend, Amazing Grace (Instrumental)?, Mr. Dzokoto stated.
Amirson Dzokoto, 59, received his training in music from prestigious institutions around the world including the University of Ghana, the Royal College of Music, London and the Royal Military School of Music, also in the UK.
He has taught music in the universities for the past 26 years. He taught music at the University of Education, Winneba, the University of Nigeria, Nsukka among others and is presently at the University of Ghana, Legon.
Armison is more than a music lecturer- he is a composer, arranger, performer, adjudicator, producer and orchestral conductor. He conducted the National Symphony Orchestra at the National Theatre in 1999 and conducted at a reception held for Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Ghana at the Accra International Conference Centre in November 1999.
Armison has authored many music textbooks. He is married to Yvonne and they have three children Edem, Fafa and Eli.
A fourteen-track digital CD audio entitled ?AMAZING GRACE?, produced by Armison Dzokoto a director of music at the Music Department of the University of Ghana, would be formally launched tomorrow Saturday 4th November 2006.
The event, scheduled to take place at the K.A. Busia Conference Hall of the University of Ghana, would be witnessed by senior citizens and senior military officers among other distinguished invited guests.
Speaking to the ADM in a short interview on Wednesday, Armison Dzokoto said AMAZING GRACE is a contemporary arrangement of selected orthodox hymn tunes suitable for contemplative as well as danceable church functions. He said AMAZING GRACE appeals to the musical taste of the sophisticated and is ideal also for family devotions. Its main objective, he said, is to ?integrate the orthodox and non-orthodox churches, the young, and the old?.
?The tracks consist of such evergreens as: I Surrender All, Be Still My Soul, Amazing Grace, How Great Thou Art, I Am Yours, Fairest Lord Jesus, Blessed Assurance, Old Rugged Cross, Nearer My God, Holy, Holy, Holy, It Is Well, Rock of Ages, What A Friend, Amazing Grace (Instrumental)?, Mr. Dzokoto stated.
Amirson Dzokoto, 59, received his training in music from prestigious institutions around the world including the University of Ghana, the Royal College of Music, London and the Royal Military School of Music, also in the UK.
He has taught music in the universities for the past 26 years. He taught music at the University of Education, Winneba, the University of Nigeria, Nsukka among others and is presently at the University of Ghana, Legon.
Armison is more than a music lecturer- he is a composer, arranger, performer, adjudicator, producer and orchestral conductor. He conducted the National Symphony Orchestra at the National Theatre in 1999 and conducted at a reception held for Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Ghana at the Accra International Conference Centre in November 1999.
Armison has authored many music textbooks. He is married to Yvonne and they have three children Edem, Fafa and Eli.
