More than 20 years ago, I was asked to write a new composition for tenor voice, alto saxophone and piano by Gail Levinsky and Jackie Edwards Henry, allowing them to perform with fellow faculty member McCray Davis at Mississippi State University. McCray was a very polite and quiet member of the faculty. Hired in the 1970s to be an assistant choral director, he spent years on the faculty teaching voice and staying out of the limelight. As an African-American during this time pe