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Norman Alvin Middleton Jr.

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Norman Alvin Middleton Jr.

Birth
Bradenton, Manatee County, Florida, USA
Death
28 Nov 2015 (aged 64)
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
Burial
Palmetto, Manatee County, Florida, USA GPS-Latitude: 27.56248, Longitude: -82.56359
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Loving son of the late Norman Sr. and Dorothy Middleton. He is the beloved brother of Orville Middleton and Kimm Middleton. Norman made his home in Washington, DC. A service celebrating the lives of Norman Middleton, Jr., and his mother, Dorothy Middleton, will be held Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 10:00am, St. Mary Missionary Baptist Church, 1006 First Street, Bradenton, FL. Visitation will be held, Friday, December 4, 2015 from 5-7pm at St. Mary's
Norman Middleton, Senior Producer, Concerts and Special Projects, worked for the Music Division for nearly thirty years, and has been in the concert office since the 1990-91 season.
In the Muse chatted with Norman on April 28th, 2011, his last day at the Library of Congress.What do you think is the best concert you ever produced here?

That’s a tough one! There’ve been so many. I don’t have a favorite. Some of my favorite concerts here, I didn’t produce because I wanted to listen to them. So I would not schedule myself to be backstage so I could be out front to listen to them. But one of my favorites is the one where we did the Mozart Gran Partita with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. That was very satisfying to me because we have the manuscript and I had been working on that project for a couple of years. I had gone to Lincoln Center to talk to those folks when they were playing there. It was the first time that the Gran Partita had been performed here on original instruments – it was previously performed on modern instruments. That was a big one for me. We’ve produced a couple of Motown events here, and those were really satisfying, personally. We premiered the film Standing in the Shadows of Motown in the Coolidge, and that same night we had all the surviving Motown Funk Brothers here except one. After the movie we had a question and answer session with the guys onstage. That was pretty historic!. He was a graduate of Manatee High School graduate, 1969
Bradenton, FL
Loving son of the late Norman Sr. and Dorothy Middleton. He is the beloved brother of Orville Middleton and Kimm Middleton. Norman made his home in Washington, DC. A service celebrating the lives of Norman Middleton, Jr., and his mother, Dorothy Middleton, will be held Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 10:00am, St. Mary Missionary Baptist Church, 1006 First Street, Bradenton, FL. Visitation will be held, Friday, December 4, 2015 from 5-7pm at St. Mary's
Norman Middleton, Senior Producer, Concerts and Special Projects, worked for the Music Division for nearly thirty years, and has been in the concert office since the 1990-91 season.
In the Muse chatted with Norman on April 28th, 2011, his last day at the Library of Congress.What do you think is the best concert you ever produced here?

That’s a tough one! There’ve been so many. I don’t have a favorite. Some of my favorite concerts here, I didn’t produce because I wanted to listen to them. So I would not schedule myself to be backstage so I could be out front to listen to them. But one of my favorites is the one where we did the Mozart Gran Partita with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. That was very satisfying to me because we have the manuscript and I had been working on that project for a couple of years. I had gone to Lincoln Center to talk to those folks when they were playing there. It was the first time that the Gran Partita had been performed here on original instruments – it was previously performed on modern instruments. That was a big one for me. We’ve produced a couple of Motown events here, and those were really satisfying, personally. We premiered the film Standing in the Shadows of Motown in the Coolidge, and that same night we had all the surviving Motown Funk Brothers here except one. After the movie we had a question and answer session with the guys onstage. That was pretty historic!. He was a graduate of Manatee High School graduate, 1969
Bradenton, FL


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