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Clarksville, TN<\/strong> – In March of 2011, an obituary appeared in the New York Times announcing the death of the great American composer Lee Hoiby at the age of 85.<\/p>\nThe article championed his career, mentioning such notable works as his 1964 opera \u201cNatalia Petrovna,\u201d but for those who knew Hoiby, his death left something unfinished \u2013 an unperformed flute concerto he wrote 17 years earlier.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>APSU's Gateway Chamber Orchestra presents world premiere of famed composers work<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cHe had given me a copy of the flute concerto, but there wasn\u2019t a vehicle to do it with,\u201d Dr. Gregory Wolynec, Austin Peay State University associate professor of music, said. \u201cI told him we\u2019d very much like to do this. And he said, \u2018you know it\u2019s waiting for its premiere.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
At 7:30pm on Monday, April 23rd, APSU\u2019s Grammy-nominated Gateway Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Wolynec, will fulfill the late composers\u2019 wish by hosting the world premiere of his \u201cConcerto for Flute and Orchestra\u201d as part of its Pocket-sized Symphonies concert in the Music\/Mass Communication Building\u2019s Concert Hall. Music websites and blogs around the country are promoting the upcoming local concert, which includes Hoiby\u2019s 18-minute work featuring flute soloist and APSU faculty member Lisa Vanarsdel.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very beautiful,\u201d Wolynec said. \u201cThe first movement is very energetic, with virtuosic, lovely writing. The second movement alternates between moderately slow, not terribly slow, with a little more of a dancelike feel. It has really lovely harmonies.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2007, Hoiby spent two weeks in Clarksville as the holder of the APSU Roy Acuff Chair of Excellence, and during his residency, he formed a deep bond with the APSU Department of Music. The APSU Wind Ensemble premiered a new work by Hoiby, \u201cAmerican Parade,\u201d during the composer\u2019s residency, and the University also commissioned Hoiby to write a triple concerto, which the APSU Wind Ensemble premiered in 2010 at the College Band Directors National Association\u2019s Southern Division Conference at the University of Mississippi.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a good friend of the department,\u201d Dr. Jeffrey Wood, professor of music at APSU, said shortly after Hoiby\u2019s death. \u201cWe\u2019ve had an extensive connection and relationship with him since his residency.\u201d<\/p>\n
[320left]But presenting a previously unperformed piece poses a unique challenge to the orchestra. Wolynec and his musicians have little background from which to draw assistance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a piece that doesn\u2019t have a performance history,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like we can go and listen to old recordings. It\u2019s all a brand new sound. What we do have to draw from is that we worked with Lee on his music.\u201d<\/p>\n
The world-premiere of the Hoiby work is only a portion of the program for the orchestra\u2019s final concert of the 2011-2012 season. The concert follows the orchestra\u2019s famed \u201cthree-legged stool\u201d approach to programming, with a known masterwork, a masterwork or composer often overlooked by history and a piece by an American composer.<\/p>\n
The evening will begin with a performance of Franz Joseph Haydn\u2019s underperformed \u201cSymphony No. 22 in E flat,\u201d also known as the \u201cThe Philosopher.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHaydn wrote 104 symphonies, and the last six are performed regularly by leading orchestras around the world,\u201d Wolynec said. \u201cUnfortunately, that misses out on 98 other fantastic ones. The 22nd has a really unusual collection of instruments\u2026it\u2019s just dazzling.\u201d<\/p>\n
That piece will be followed by the premiere of the Hoiby work, satisfying the American composer element of the evening. And the concert will conclude with a performance of Franz Shubert\u2019s masterwork \u201cSymphony No. 5 in B flat.\u201d<\/p>\n
[320right]\u201cShubert is a name well known in the classical music world,\u201d Wolynec said. \u201cHe is one of the long line of Viennese classicists, including Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. The Fifth Symphony sounds like it\u2019s influenced by Mozart. It\u2019s light, airy, very approachable, with beautiful melodies. It\u2019s full of elegance and grace.\u201d<\/p>\n
The orchestra\u2019s second CD, \u201cChamber Symphonies,\u201d which won\u2019t officially be released until May, will be on sale at this concert. This follow-up album to the Orchestra\u2019s Grammy-nominated \u201cWind Serenades\u201d CD is already garnering critical acclaim, with the national trade publication Allegro Classical issuing a \u201cBuzz Alert\u201d notice on it in the magazine\u2019s most recent issue.<\/p>\n
Tickets to the April 23rd Pocket-sized Symphonies concert are $15.00 for adults, $10.00 for students and military, $30.00 for a family of four and free to APSU students with a valid student I.D. Tickets are available at the MMC Box Office, which opens at 4:00pm on the day of the show.<\/p>\n
For more information about this concert, visit www.gatewaychamberorchestra.com<\/a> or email info@gatewaychamberorchestra.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Austin Peay State University Clarksville, TN – In March of 2011, an obituary appeared in the New York Times announcing the death of the great American composer Lee Hoiby at the age of 85. The article championed his career, mentioning such notable works as his 1964 opera \u201cNatalia Petrovna,\u201d but for those who knew Hoiby, […]<\/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":[23,1129,4025,7348,7351,262,825,13773,10645,4017,7345,6890,4012,13772,8175,754,13401],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-2NL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10773"}],"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=10773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10774,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10773\/revisions\/10774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}