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U of A musicians performed with the Fort Smith Symphone during recording of five works by Native American composer Louis Ballard, with a release date anticipated for the album in fall this year.
Louis Wayne Ballard -- or "Honga-no-zhe," meaning "Grand Eagle" in Quapaw -- was born on July 8, 1931, in Devil's Promenade, Okla., near Miami. His mother was Quapaw; his father Cherokee. At 6, he was sent to the Seneca Indian Training School, where the goal was to assimilate him into white American culture.