Dead Elvis is a work for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, violin, double bass and percussion, composed in 1993 by Michael Daugherty, associate professor of music at the University of Michigan. The clarinet is a Musical instrument in the Woodwind family The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word The bassoon is a Woodwind instrument in the Double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and Tenor registers and occasionally The trombone is a Musical instrument in the brass family Like all brass instruments it is a lip-reed Aerophone: sound is produced when the player’s The violin is a bowed String instrument with four strings usually tuned in Perfect fifths It is the smallest and highest-pitched member The double bass is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed String instrument used in the modern symphony orchestra. Michael Kevin Daugherty (born April 28, 1954) is an American Composer, pianist and teacher The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research It uses a medieval Latin chant for the Day of Judgment as the principal musical theme and pits two different Elvis Presley images: "the hip, beautiful, genius, thin, rock-and-roll Elvis vs. In Christian eschatology, the Last Judgment or Day of the Lord is the judgment by God of every human who ever lived the vulgar, cheesy, fat, stoned, Las Vegas Elvis. The Las Vegas Strip (also known as The Strip) is an approximately 4 mile (6 " The work was commissioned by Boston Musica Viva and Chuck Ullery, principal bassoonist with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Boston Musica Viva is a Boston Massachusetts -based music ensemble founded by its Music Director Richard Pittman, in 1969 and dedicated to contemporary The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra ( SPCO) based in Saint Paul (the state capital of Minnesota) is the nation's only full-time professional Chamber

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• University of Michigan: Dead Elvis

For other music relating to Elvis Presley, see also Dead Elvis, The King & Eye and Jason Morphew's song, "Elvis Was a Mama's Boy" from his 2001 album, Not for the Faint of Heart!. Dead Elvis was the first album by British band Death in Vegas. The King & Eye is an album by the American Avant-garde band The Residents, released in 1989 Jason Morphew is a Musician who started his career in the late 1990s Not for the Faint of Heart! is an album by Jason Morphew. It was released on June 19, 2001 on Ba Da Bing!.