{"id":13221,"date":"2012-11-24T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=13221"},"modified":"2012-11-23T23:29:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T05:29:53","slug":"gateway-chamber-orchestra-and-chorus-to-perform-winter-baroque-concert-december-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2012\/11\/24\/gateway-chamber-orchestra-and-chorus-to-perform-winter-baroque-concert-december-2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Gateway Chamber Orchestra and Chorus to perform “Winter Baroque” concert December 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GatewayClarksville, TN<\/strong> – In 1731, the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his Sacred Cantata No. 4, also known as \u201cSleepers, Wake,\u201d to be performed on the 27th Sunday after Trinity.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a remarkably beautiful piece from the Baroque era, but the timing of its performance was a bit unfortunate.<\/p>\n

\"Gateway<\/a>

Gateway Chamber Orchestra<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThe 27th Sunday after Trinity rarely happens,\u201d Dr. Douglas Rose, chair of the Austin Peay State University Department of Music, said. \u201cIt only happens if Easter is really early. It only happened in Bach\u2019s lifetime in 1731 and 1742.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luckily for modern audiences, \u201cSleepers, Wake\u201d is no longer confined to such rare appearances. But the piece\u2019s performance history, coming so late in the year, has led it to be popularly associated with the holiday season. At 3:00pm on December 2nd, the newly formed Gateway Chamber Chorus will present the work as part of the Gateway Chamber Orchestra\u2019s \u201cWinter Baroque\u201d concert at Madison Street United Methodist Church.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is really the unveiling of the chorus to the community,\u201d Dr. Gregory Wolynec, conductor of the Gateway Chamber Orchestra, said.<\/p>\n

Last spring, Rose set out to recruit talented vocalists from the Clarksville community. The chorus now boasts such gifted singers as APSU music professor emeritus Dr. George Mabry, APSU director of opera workshop Lisa Conklin-Bishop, soprano Hollie Dueker, tenor Dr. Thomas King, several APSU alumni and more than 25 local performers.<\/p>\n

\"Gateway<\/a>

Gateway Chamber Orchestra<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cAll of them are from the Clarksville area, and they\u2019re really quite good,\u201d Rose, chorus director, said.<\/p>\n

For the last four years, Wolynec has worked to make his ensemble the premiere orchestra for the Clarksville community, and he believed a choral component should go along with that. The Winter Baroque concert is now the perfect venue to debut that chorus, with pieces such as Handel\u2019s \u201cMessiah\u201d on the program.<\/p>\n

Moving the concert from APSU to the Madison Street United Methodist Church also allows the music to be performed in its proper venue \u2013 a church.<\/p>\n

[320left]\u201cBaroque music in a church resonates well this time of year,\u201d Wolynec said. \u201cDoug is going to be conducting one of the Bach Cantatas. We\u2019re going to feature a couple of very well known works that many concertgoers will recognize. We\u2019re also doing a couple selections from \u2018The Messiah,\u2019 George Frideric Handel\u2019s masterwork, featuring Thomas King as tenor.\u201d<\/p>\n

The program will also include Jared Wilson performing an organ concerto by Handel, Dr. Jeannette Zyko, APSU assistant professor of music, playing a sinfonia for oboe, and two a cappella pieces \u2013 Es ist ein Ros\u2019 entsprungen and O sapentia \u2013 performed by the choir.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis concert will celebrate some of the great classical compositions of the Baroque time period,\u201d Wolynec said. \u201cSome of these works were written for performances for this time of year. And the program will end with an audience sing-along on some very popular holiday carols.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Winter Baroque concert is part of the orchestra\u2019s 2012-13 season. Tickets are $10.00 for adults, $6.00 for students and active duty military, and $25.00 for a family of four. Tickets are available on the orchestra\u2019s website, www.gatewaychamberorchestra.com<\/a>, and at the church beginning at 1:00pm on the day of the concert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – In 1731, the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his Sacred Cantata No. 4, also known as \u201cSleepers, Wake,\u201d to be performed on the 27th Sunday after Trinity. It\u2019s a remarkably beautiful piece from the Baroque era, but the timing of its performance was a bit unfortunate.<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,4680,1129,262,825,12897,17025,10645,4375,4017,17027,14149,16631,11599,17026,1588],"class_list":["post-13221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-leisure","tag-apsu","tag-apsu-alumni","tag-apsu-department-of-music","tag-austin-peay-state-university","tag-clarksville-tn","tag-douglas-rose","tag-gateway-chamber-chorus","tag-gateway-chamber-orchestra","tag-george-mabry","tag-gregory-wolynec","tag-hollie-dueker","tag-jeannette-zyko","tag-johann-sebastian-bach","tag-lisa-conklin-bishop","tag-madison-united-methodist-church","tag-thomas-king"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-3rf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=13221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13223,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221\/revisions\/13223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}