{"id":13385,"date":"2012-12-10T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=13385"},"modified":"2012-12-10T02:47:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T08:47:34","slug":"gateway-chamber-orchestra-recognized-on-55th-annual-grammy-awards-nominees-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2012\/12\/10\/gateway-chamber-orchestra-recognized-on-55th-annual-grammy-awards-nominees-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Gateway Chamber Orchestra recognized on 55th Annual Grammy Awards nominees list"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GatewayClarksville, TN<\/strong> – On Wednesday night, following a nationally televised concert in Nashville, the nominees for the 55th Annual Grammy Awards were announced.<\/p>\n

Near the very bottom of that list of nominees, available online at www.grammy.com\/nominees,<\/a> was the category for \u201cProducer of the Year, Classical,\u201d and the name Blanton Alspaugh.<\/p>\n

\"Gateway<\/a>

Gateway Chamber Orchestra – “Chamber Symphonies”<\/p><\/div>\n

Alspaugh\u2019s Grammy nomination is the result of several superb classical albums he helped usher into existence this year, including \u201cChamber Symphonies,\u201d by Clarksville\u2019s own Gateway Chamber Orchestra. That album, released last spring by Summit Records, features chamber symphonies by Romanian composer George Enescu and Austrian composers Franz Schreker and Arnold Schoenberg.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe players may be university faculty members augmented by practicing musicians from the outside community, but in every way these are topnotch, professional performances that match or outclass the competition,\u201d music critic Jerry Dubins wrote in his review of the album for Fanfare magazine.<\/p>\n

The orchestra, which formed in 2007 and is made up of Austin Peay State University music faculty and other professional musicians, released its debut CD in 2010, \u201cWind Serenades.\u201d That CD was also put forward for Grammy nominations by leaders in the music industry who recognized the high quality of the music.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to understand that we only submit recordings which we believe merit Grammy consideration,\u201d Alspaugh said previously. \u201cThat means that they represent excellence in performance and in production values. Any nomination for Producer of the Year ultimately rests on the artistry on display in these recordings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Gregory Wolynec, APSU professor of music and the orchestra\u2019s conductor, met Alspaugh several years ago when the producer was on campus recording an album in what is today the Mabry Concert Hall in the APSU Music\/Mass Communication Building.<\/p>\n

[320left]\u201cI just said, \u2018Let me send you something,\u2019\u201d Wolynec recalled. \u201cHe listened to it, and he\u2019s the one who called Summit Records and said, \u2018You need to make this happen.’ Summit Records got behind it, and then we were able to do the \u2018Wind Serenades\u2019 disc.\u201d<\/p>\n

That first album was also praised by several music critics and classical music publications, garnering a Grammy nomination for Producer of the Year. The new CD, \u201cChamber Symphonies,\u201d continues with that trend while building upon the orchestra\u2019s reputation for delivering top-notch performances.<\/p>\n

The American Record Guide called the \u201cChamber Symphonies\u201d disc \u201cbold, powerful, American,\u201d and said the orchestra\u2019s rendition of Schreker\u2019s work is \u201cthe most extroverted and bold, with rich, intense colors, a big sound and fine integration of the work\u2019s episodic nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main credit has to go to Gregory Wolynec and his outstanding Gateway Chamber Orchestra players for their fantastic achievement,\u201d Dubins wrote in his Fanfare review. \u201cI commend this release to you with my strongest recommendation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cChamber Symphonies\u201d album was considered for nominations in several Grammy categories \u2013 including producer of the year, engineered sound and small ensemble.<\/p>\n

The Grammy Award winners will be announced on February 10th.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit the orchestra\u2019s website, www.gatewaychamberorchestra.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – On Wednesday night, following a nationally televised concert in Nashville, the nominees for the 55th Annual Grammy Awards were announced. Near the very bottom of that list of nominees, available online at www.grammy.com\/nominees,<\/a> was the category for \u201cProducer of the Year, Classical,\u201d and the name Blanton Alspaugh.<\/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":[5],"tags":[23,16648,16329,262,4018,5856,825,4016,17226,10645,6616,5857,4017,4014,17225,4019,4015],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-3tT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13385"}],"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=13385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13387,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13385\/revisions\/13387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}