Homeward bound brant karrick biography

A LIFE-CHANGING DIAGNOSIS

By 2011, at the age of 50, Karrick was at one of the highest points of his career.

Program Notes.

"Homeward Bound" is one of the most popular and widely-performed contemporary choral pieces.

Biography.

The Clay County Community Band Plays "Homeward Bound" by Marta Keen.

Marta Keen Thompson has written and published children's songs and choral works since After completing a BA in English and Music at Texas Christian.

He had racked up a list of credits that any musician would envy, and bands had performed his compositions all across the globe. However, days before he was set to attend The Midwest Clinic in Chicago as a guest conductor, he was sitting in a hospital bed.

“It was a form of pneumonia called pleurisy, where your lungs fill up,” Karrick says.

“They eventually had to tap into my lungs to drain them.”

After a two-week hospital stay, Karrick bounced back but later began bleeding and bruising easily—a sign that his platelet count was going down. Despite trying many different treatments, nothing helped.

In February 2014, Karrick’s oncologist noticed a lump on his neck. After a biopsy, Karrick was diagnosed with Stage 4 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma that had started attacking his lymph nodes, pelvis and bone.

“My doctor said that if you have to have cancer, that’s