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NELSON IS WINNER OF NISSIM AWARD

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Associated Press

Paul Nelson recently won the $5,000 seventh annual American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Rudolf Nissim Award.

The winning entry, “Vox Aeterna Amoris” for mezzo-soprano solo and orchestra, consists of settings of six love poems by women over a period of 2,000 years. Nelson, of Providence, R.I., is a recently retired professor of composition at Brown University.

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