Come to my Banquet Table (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781492942085)

Martha Brady Bruton is a veteran pianist originally from Siler City, North Carolina, who resides in Wilmington, North Carolina. She began her study of piano at age five and continued throughout her senior year in high school. She played for civic, church, and community events and was entered by her teachers into state and national piano contests. She was offered an academic scholarship to Greensboro College in North Carolina, where she studied under the accomplished pianist Dean Mark Hoffman of Germany. She was selected as piano accompanist to vocal groups within the school and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Music degree. She was elected into the 1947 volume of Who's Who Among American Colleges and Universities. Her junior year she won a state music contest at the University of North Carolina, taking her to the world renowned Juilliard School of Music in New York. She studied under the distinguished Ernest Hutcheson and Joseph Battista. From there she transferred to the University of Cincinnati in Ohio where she began work on a Masters degree program, studying piano under the famous Mozart authority, Madame Lonny Epstein. Mrs. Bruton has been involved as Minister of Music in churches and has taught private piano and organ for over thirty years. Many of her students have been recognized on a national level. In 1950 she and her fiancé, Daniel Davis Bruton, Jr., were chosen to appear on the television program, "Bride and Groom," out of Hollywood, California, where they were married. For Mrs. Bruton's many accomplishments, she has received letters of commendation from various governors of North Carolina and was invited to perform at the Governor's Mansion in Raleigh, North Carolina, for a Christmas concert. She has also performed on radio. Her original vocal compositions have been performed at several universities. Since her retirement, her talent has been directed towards spiritual pursuits working with such groups as the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International, Aqueduct Ministry in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Women's Aglow. Other groups to which she has contributed her skills include Women of the Word and ministries such as Norvel Hayes, Helping Hands Ministry, and Living Waters Ministry in Guatemala. Additionally, she was on the teaching staff at Caribbean Christ for the Nations in Jamaica, West Indies. Her greatest desire is for people, especially through her music, to come to know Christ in His fullness.