15 Facts About Philip Munger

Philip Munger was born on November 3,1946 and is an American composer, music educator, political blogger, and environmentalist living in Alaska.

Philip Munger is perhaps best known for "The Skies are Weeping", a seven-movement cantata written in tribute to Rachel Corrie, an American member of the International Solidarity Movement killed in 2003 by a bulldozer operated by the Israel Defense Forces while she tried to prevent a house demolition in the southern Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada.

Philip Munger was born in 1946 and attended Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Washington, where he studied musical composition.

Philip Munger was born in 1946 and attended Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Washington, where he studied musical composition.

Philip Munger helped to expand the Whittier Boat Harbor, started the Prince William Aquaculture Corporation, and helped start of first volunteered search-and-rescue unit on Prince William Sound.

Philip Munger has performed thousands of hours of service in the community including coaching little league baseball and youth soccer and volunteering as an assistant Cub and Boy Scout leader.

Philip Munger describes himself as a serious environmentalist ["I laugh only when I am in complete control"] and claims to have been called "Alaska's most notorious composer" due to his classically based protest musical works.

Philip Munger attended Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Washington, where he studied melodrama and musical composition.

Philip Munger has been recipient of several grants, prizes, and honors, with his works being performed at the Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Juilliard Institute, Cornish Institute, Warsaw Conservatory, the National Gallery, the National Cathedral, and other notable venues.

In 2004 Philip Munger composed a cantata titled The Skies are Weeping, in seven movements for a soprano soloist, chamber choir, and percussion ensemble.

Philip Munger fell into a coma and died 9 months later without having regained consciousness.

Philip Munger currently serves with the Alaska Democratic Party as secretary of Mat-Su Democrats and of District 13.

Philip Munger worked on the 2008 campaign of Diane Benson for Alaska's US congressional seat.

In June 1997, he watched her speech at a graduation ceremony for small group of home-schooled students at an Assembly of God church, where Philip Munger had been conducting the college band.

Philip Munger further claimed he asked Palin if she ascribed to the End of Days belief in which the Messiah will return while earth is in total chaos.