— MUSIC AMBASSADOR FACT SHEET —
The City has a program highlighting local musical talent conferring the award of Music Ambassador to a resident musician/composer annually.
2014 Ambassador Rani Arbo & Dave Downs
2015 Ambassador, Jay Hoggard
2016 Ambassador, Kitty Kathryn
2018 Ambassador, Terry Woolard
2019 Ambassador, Neely Bruce
Each has her/his own style and each claims Middletown as home.
Here are the selections used for our current 2019 Music Ambassador, featured as our music on hold when you call any City office.
• “Crackin Lobsters” or “Santa Ynez Waltz” by Neely Bruce
Neely Bruce (b. 1944) is John Spencer Camp Professor of Music at Wesleyan University. He is a composer, performer and scholar of American music. He has composed over 800 pieces of music, including three full-length operas, five one-act operas, oratorios and other choral works, about 300 solo songs, chamber music, seven documentary video scores for PBS, and fourteen hours worth of solo piano music.