22 Year Old Minnesota Composer to Perform New Music in Honor of I-35 Bridge Victims

22 Year Old Minnesota Composer to Perform New Music in Honor of I-35 Bridge Victims

 MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ --    WHAT            Live lunchtime performance of original work Final Ride                   Home by local pianist Phil Thompson, dedicated to those                   who have suffered from the tragic collapse of the I-35                   bridge.    WHY             Increase awareness of Thompson's related fundraising                   effort. The song can be downloaded from both iTunes and CD                   Baby for 99 cents. Thompson's goal is to raise $1,000,000,                   from 1,000,000 individual downloads.   All proceeds will                   be donated to the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Red                   Cross.    WHERE           City Center Atrium, 1st floor Between Nicollet Mall and                   Hennepin Avenue, between 6th and 7th Streets    WHEN            Three brief performances, starting at 12, 12:30 and                   1:00.                   Thursday, August 16     Background:     22 year old Phil Thompson, an award winning composer,                   honors composition student at the MacPhail Center for the                   Arts and recent University of Minnesota graduate, has a                   deep commitment to using his musical talents as a way of                   helping others. He composed Final Ride Home as a tribute                   to those whose lives were lost as a result of the I-35                   bridge collapse.                    Brookfield Properties, one of North America's largest                   commercial real estate companies, has invited Thompson to                   perform in City Center's atrium (one of their four                   properties in Minneapolis; others include Gaviidae Common,                   33 South Sixth Street Tower and the Dain Rauscher Plaza)                   as a way of increasing awareness of the fund raising he's                   undertaken.                    Visual elements of the performance:                        -- Heavy skyway lunchtime traffic from downtown's                          185,000 office workers.                       -- Thompson will perform on the first level of the                          newly renovated 5 story City Center Atrium.                       -- Thompson's own website                          (http://www.philthompsonmusic.com/) and YouTube                          feature the music choreographed with still images                          of the bridge collapse.  

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Source: Brookfield Properties

CONTACT: Betsy Buckley, +1-651-603-0441, or Cell, +1-612-669-5876,
betsyb@what-matters.com, for Brookfield Properties

Web site: http://www.philthompsonmusic.com/

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