{"id":13805,"date":"2013-01-25T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=13805"},"modified":"2013-01-25T10:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T16:00:33","slug":"gateway-chamber-orchestra-to-hold-heavenly-strings-concert-february-11th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2013\/01\/25\/gateway-chamber-orchestra-to-hold-heavenly-strings-concert-february-11th\/","title":{"rendered":"Gateway Chamber Orchestra to hold “Heavenly Strings” Concert February 11th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GatewayClarksville, TN<\/strong> – In the late 1930s, the American composer Samuel Barber created a work for string quartet with a slow, hauntingly beautiful second movement.<\/p>\n

That section of the composition proved to be so powerful that Barber soon arranged that movement as a complete work for an expanded string orchestra.<\/p>\n

\"Gateway<\/a>

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

The piece, \u201cAdagio for Strings,\u201d is arguably the most popular work by an American composer. It also often bears the title, \u201cthe saddest music in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2010, Clarksville\u2019s Gateway Chamber Orchestra performed the piece to much acclaim for the local community. At 7:30pm on February 11th, the ensemble will present Aaron Kernis\u2019 \u201cMusica Celestis\u201d \u2013 a masterwork known as an \u201cAdagio for Strings for a new century\u201d \u2013 during its \u201cHeavenly Strings\u201d concert at the Austin Peay State University Mabry Concert Hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe (Kernis) had a similar phenomena as Barber with this piece,\u201d Dr. Gregory Wolynec, conductor of the GCO and APSU professor of music, said. \u201cKernis wrote a string quartet that had a beautiful, slow movement, and he was commissioned to arrange it for a string orchestra. He did this in 1990. So, 50 years after Barber he is creating a new work in a similar way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMusica Celestis\u201d differs from \u201cAdagio for Strings,\u201d Wolynec said, in that the Kernis piece isn\u2019t as melancholy as \u201cthe saddest music in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is profoundly beautiful, absolutely gorgeous,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s beautiful in a very different way from Barber. It\u2019s still slow, still sustained and still makes incredible use of the range of sounds and colors available from a string section. But it\u2019s more atmospheric and more uplifting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kernis, like Barber, is also an American composer, making him a perfect fit for the GCO\u2019s unique style of programming. For every concert, the orchestra includes a piece by an American composer, an established masterwork and a \u201cforgotten gem\u201d that, according to Wolynec, \u201chistory may have missed that we think deserves to be championed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The piece the orchestra plans to champion during the February 11th \u201cHeavenly Strings\u201d concert will be German composer Carl Reinecke\u2019s \u201cCello Concerto, Op. 82.\u201d Cellist Michael Samis, a member of the GCO and the Nashville Symphony, rediscovered the work about a year ago. He contacted Wolynec about performing the difficult piece, and the two men spent the next six months tracking down music from Germany.<\/p>\n

[320left]\u201cWe\u2019ve not been able to find any evidence that the piece has ever been performed in the United States,\u201d Wolynec said. \u201cThis might be the American premier of this work. It has beautiful melodies that are handled in a masterful way by the composer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The February 11th concert will conclude with renowned Austrian composer Joseph Haydn\u2019s masterwork \u201cSymphony No. 103 in E flat.\u201d The work surprised audiences in London when it premiered in 1790 because it opens with the booming sound of drums. The work is often nicknamed \u201cThe Drum Roll.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first movement is very dramatic, and the second movements in Haydn\u2019s symphonies tend to be based on popular folk tunes of the time,\u201d Wolynec said. \u201cI think no word better describes his music than elegant.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cHeavenly Strings\u201d concert is part of the orchestra\u2019s 2012-13 season. Tickets are $15.00 for adults, $10.00 for students and active duty military, $40.00 for a family of four and free to APSU students with a valid I.D.<\/p>\n

Tickets are available on the orchestra\u2019s website, www.gatewaychamberorchestra.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – In the late 1930s, the American composer Samuel Barber created a work for string quartet with a slow, hauntingly beautiful second movement. That section of the composition proved to be so powerful that Barber soon arranged that movement as a complete work for an expanded string orchestra.<\/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":[17573,16648,825,1476,10645,4017,17574,10649,5522],"class_list":["post-13805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-leisure","tag-aaron-kernis","tag-apsu-george-and-sharon-mabry-concert-hall","tag-clarksville-tn","tag-concert","tag-gateway-chamber-orchestra","tag-gregory-wolynec","tag-heavenly-strings","tag-joseph-haydn","tag-samuel-barber"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-3AF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805","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=13805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13811,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions\/13811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}