Professor Emeritus Featured in Award-Winning Film

February 11, 2008

Penn State distinguished professor emeritus of music Michael Broyles was featured as a commentator in Do Not Go Gently, a film about creative aging that won a Gold World Medal in Humanities at the New York Film Festivals Film and Video Awards on January 31. Subjects in the film include premiere danseur Frederic Franklin, who has been dancing professionally since 1931; Gee’s Bend quilter Arlonzia Pettway, age 82; and 109-year-old composer Leo Ornstein, who is the subject of a new biography, Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choice, by Broyles and Florida State University professor of music Denise Von Glahn.

Do Not Go Gently, directed by Melissa Godoy with executive producer Eileen Littig, has been aired on PBS stations nationwide and screened at festivals and art museums across the United States. For more information on the film, visit http://donotgogently.com.

Contact: Amy Milgrub Marshall, alm157@psu.edu or 814.863.2104