Saturday, March 30 at 7:30pm in Ellis Recital Hall, the Missouri State University Music Department will present a concert to commemorate the life and accomplishments of former faculty member and dean of the College of Arts and Letters, David O. Belcher, who died in June 2018 of a brain tumor. Dr. Belcher’s wife Susan, and MSU composition professor and Graduate Coordinator for the Music Department Dr. John Prescott, came to KSMU to talk about David and about the tribute. After graduating from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, David Orr Belcher began his career in higher education right here at MSU in 1988. “David started here in ’88,” says Dr. Prescott, “but in 1994 he became Dean of Arts and Letters. And one of his first tasks was the search for a new Music Department head—and I ultimately got that position. So I worked hand in hand with David over the next nine years in many, many endeavors, and got to know him very well.” One of Dr. Belcher’s most notable accomplishments
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