UTC Music Professor Composes Tribute to 7/16 Shooting Victims

  Kenyon Wilson, an Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, has composed a musical tribute to the four Marines and one sailor who were killed during a July 16, 2015 shooting rampage at a Chattanooga naval reserve center.  Titled Five, it made its Chattanooga premiere on February 20th, 2016 during a performance by high school students playing in the 2016 Tri-State Honor Band.  In this segment, we find out how Wilson used the Blue Angels' missing man formationas inspiration, and we hear excerpts from the piece.