{"id":10174,"date":"2012-02-27T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=10174"},"modified":"2012-02-27T03:25:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T09:25:41","slug":"austin-peay-state-university-concert-to-capture-whimsy-and-freedom-of-childhood-march-12th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2012\/02\/27\/austin-peay-state-university-concert-to-capture-whimsy-and-freedom-of-childhood-march-12th\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay State University Concert to capture whimsy and freedom of childhood March 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-95649\" title=\"APSU Department of Music\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/APSU-Department-of-Music.gif\" alt=\"APSU Department of Music\" width=\"250\" height=\"105\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; One afternoon several years ago, the prominent Hungarian composer Gy\u00f6rgy Kurt\u00e1g watched as a group of children banged away at a piano. They were playing with the instrument as if it were a toy, and Kurt\u00e1g was struck by how much fun they seemed to have.<\/p>\n<p>That observation inspired him to compose his solo piano pieces, \u201cJ\u00e1t\u00e9kok\u201d (Games), which captures the playful freedom of childhood with its sometimes frenetic sounds. At 7:30pm on March 12th, Austin Peay State University professor of music Dr. Jeffrey Wood will present the little-heard piece in a concert filled with works all denoting childhood.<!--more-->In addition to the Kurt\u00e1g, the program will include American composer John Cage\u2019s \u201cSuite for Toy Piano,\u201d Wood\u2019s own compositions \u201cChildren\u201d and \u201cOliver Singing,\u201d as well as Samuel Barber\u2019s \u201cKnoxville: Summer of 1915.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Barber work is an adaptation of a short story by James Agee, in which a child narrator describes a summer evening in the American south.<\/p>\n<p>Guest soprano Marcella Calabi will accompany Wood for this concert. She is a Harvard-educated recitalist who performs a diverse repertoire of opera, oratorio, chamber music, and early and contemporary music, in which she has been heard across the country and in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The concert, which is free and open to the public, will be in the APSU Music\/Mass communication Building\u2019s Concert Hall. For more information, contact the APSU Department of Music at 931.221.7818.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; One afternoon several years ago, the prominent Hungarian composer Gy\u00f6rgy Kurt\u00e1g watched as a group of children banged away at a piano. They were playing with the instrument as if it were a toy, and Kurt\u00e1g was struck by how much fun they seemed to have. That observation inspired him to compose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,1129,4025,262,1476,5448,5451,12944,12946,12945],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-2E6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10176,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174\/revisions\/10176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}