PINCKNEY, MI — When music composer and University of Michigan alum Barrett Kalellis penned his six-part, poetry-inspired composition “The Hill of Vision,” he was about half his age.
This October, at the age of 81, Kalellis won the grand prize for the original composition from the World Artistry Music Award, an international online music competition for instrumentalists, vocalists and composers.
The grand prize comes 40 years after “The Hill of Vision,” which Kalellis composed for bass-baritone voice and chamber orchestra, was performed at a 1985 concert at The University of Michigan’s Rackham Auditorium in Ann Arbor…