USI Gift Will Help Music Programs

Evansville IN

22 October, 2021

1:07 PM

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By Steve Burger, WNIN Oct. 22, 2021 Music programming at the University of Southern Indiana got a big boost from a well known donor. At a concert featuring the music of Mt. Vernon native Philip Hagemann, USI announced that the award-winning composer is donating two million dollars to help expand the music program at USI. According to a release, the newly-established Philip H. Hagemann Music Program Fund will bolster the current music ensembles and classes while supporting the long-range vision of a full degree program in music at USI. Born and raised in Mount Vernon, Hagemann is an accomplished musician, teacher, producer and award-winning composer of two full-length operas, ten one-act chamber operas and seventy five choral works. A multi-million dollar gift to a University of Evansville nursing scholarship program will increase financial aid possibilities to prospective nurses. WNIN is the NPR/PBS affiliate in Evansville, Indiana. We serve Southwestern Indiana, Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois from our multimedia facility located on the Ohio River in downtown Evansville. For the past several years, the recognized quality of our local news has placed us among the best small market radio news organizations in the nation.