Music from The World Video games 2022, together with the theme track “Hope of Alabama” and different orchestral works written, organized and produced by UAB College Professor of Music Henry Panion III, Ph.D., was acknowledged for excellence in video and tv.

Music from The World Video games 2022, together with the theme track “Hope of Alabama” and different orchestral works written, organized and produced by UAB College Professor of Music Henry Panion III, Ph.D., was acknowledged for excellence in video and tv.The World Video games 2022 opening and shutting ceremonies, led by creative and artistic director Henry Panion III, Ph.D., have been acknowledged with an “unprecedented” 19 Telly Awards, it was introduced Could 23.

Panion, College Professor of Music within the College of Alabama at Birmingham Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was creative and artistic director for The World Video games, and wrote greater than 45 new orchestral works for the manufacturing. The Video games’ theme track, “Hope of Alabama,” was co-written by Panion, Randy Owen of the group Alabama and his daughter Alison Owen, and the video was co-directed by Panion and Matthew Huesmann.

Panion oversaw the inventive manufacturing in audio, orchestration, visuals, dance, drama and extra. He’s the proprietor of Audiostate 55 Leisure, the place the music for the ceremonies was produced. “Hope of Alabama” options a few of Alabama’s most iconic musical stars, together with Owen, hip-hop artist Yung Bleu, nation stars Sara Evans and Jamey Johnson, Stellar Awards Gospel Artist of the 12 months Pastor Mike Jr., NBC’s “The Voice” high contestants Definitely worth the Wait, Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell, “American Idol” winners Ruben Studdard and Taylor Hicks, “American Idol” runner-up Bo Bice, Motown legend Martha Reeves, and the Legendary Blind Boys of Alabama, with the mixed youth and grownup choirs of The World Video games 2022. College, employees and college students from UAB contributed to the music, costumes, group, expertise and efficiency.

The Telly Awards honors excellence in video and tv throughout all screens and is judged by leaders from video platforms, tv, streaming networks and manufacturing firms, together with Adobe, BBC World Service, Netflix, A&E Networks, Nickelodeon, Nationwide Geographic Society, and ESPN Movies. 

• “Hope of Alabama” received Silver Telly awards within the Branded Content material class for Modifying, Videography/Cinematography, and Sports activities; within the Tv class for Directing and Social Influence; and within the On-line class for Leisure.

• “Hope of Alabama” received Bronze Telly awards in the Branded Content material class for Directing, Stay Experiences and Modifying; within the Tv class for Historical past, Music Video and Sports activities; within the On-line class for Modifying, Use of Music and Music Video; and in the Individuals’s Telly class for Branded Content material.

• “We Shall Overcome” for the opening ceremony received a Silver Telly for Cultural in the Tv class.

• “VisionLand Fanfare & March,” which was used as “The Athletes’ March” for the opening ceremony, is the Silver Telly winner in the Tv class for Use of Music.

• “Fanfare & Elegy,” featured as “The Entry of the Flags” for the opening ceremony, is the Bronze Telly winner in the Tv class for Use of Music.

It was an honor to function creative and artistic director of the World Video games 2022 in his house metropolis of Birmingham, Panion says.

Henry Panion III, Ph.D., and Randy Owen.“To guide this superb staff of musicians, singers, dancers, technicians and designers, together with most of the most well-known musicians and singers from the state of Alabama, was reward sufficient. However to have that work acknowledged by the trade so meaningfully is simply unbelievable,” Panion mentioned. 

“Fanfare & Elegy” was initially commissioned for the grand opening of UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Heart in 1996 by Leonard Slatkin and the Nationwide Symphony Orchestra once they carried out right here.

This was a record-breaking 12 months for the forty fourth Annual Telly Awards, with practically 13,000 entries from throughout the globe and high video and tv content material producers reminiscent of Airbnb, Audible, BET Networks/BET Digital, BritBox, Disney, NASA, Paramount, PBS Digital Studios, and extra.

“The caliber of the work this season coming from creators reminiscent of Audiostate 55 Leisure really has mirrored the theme of breaking out and standing out,” mentioned Telly Government Director Sabrina Dridje. “Our trade is experimenting with new applied sciences like by no means earlier than, crafting really compelling tales to attract consideration to a few of the world’s most urgent points, and firms large and small are turning to extra sustainable practices to interrupt the cycle of previous manufacturing processes.”