{"id":16538,"date":"2013-10-17T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=16538"},"modified":"2013-10-16T23:47:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T04:47:26","slug":"gateway-chamber-orchestra-showcases-string-section-with-october-27th-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2013\/10\/17\/gateway-chamber-orchestra-showcases-string-section-with-october-27th-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Gateway Chamber Orchestra showcases string section with October 27th concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GatewayClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Are you familiar with Clarksville\u2019s Gateway Chamber Orchestra? For the last five years, the ensemble \u2013 made up of Austin Peay State University music faculty and other professional musicians \u2013 has hosted acclaimed performances of classical masterworks and garnered serious Grammy consideration with their two recorded albums.<\/p>\n

Still, the orchestra sometimes feels like a well-kept secret. That\u2019s why they\u2019ve kicked off the \u201cGet to know the GCO\u201d campaign this year, with the intention of showcasing the different components of this incredibly talented ensemble.<\/p>\n

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

At 3:00pm on October 27th, the GCO will highlight its string section with the concert \u201cRomantic Strings,\u201d in the APSU Mabry Concert Hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to feature that section of the orchestra in what I believe will be the most beautiful concert we have ever performed,\u201d Dr. Gregory Wolynec, conductor and GCO music director, said.<\/p>\n

The concert follows the orchestra\u2019s now famous \u201cthree-legged stool\u201d approach to programming, with the performance featuring an established masterwork, an overlooked masterwork and a piece by a contemporary American composer. The evening will begin with Austrian composer Franz Schrecker\u2019s underperformed \u201cIntermezzo\u201d for strings.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis music is very lush, very colorful, and this piece has a beautiful melody and some very interesting harmonies,\u201d Wolynec said.<\/p>\n

The GCO will then perform American composer Aaron Copland\u2019s \u201cClarinet Concert.\u201d Copland wrote the piece for jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman, and the work contains several jazz-influenced melodies. But Goodman found the work too difficult, and he had Copland rework the clarinet\u2019s contribution. Mingzhe Wang, GCO clarinetist and APSU associate professor of music, will perform Copland\u2019s original, challenging composition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first time I heard this piece in high school, I feel in love with it immediately,\u201d Wolynec said. \u201cAnd Clarksville audiences are very fortunate to have a clarinetist as talented as Mingzhe Wang. He\u2019s going to play the original sketch.\u201d<\/p>\n

The GCO\u2019s string section will follow up this piece with Gustav Mahler\u2019s masterwork, \u201cAdagietto\u201d from his \u201cSymphony No. 5.\u201d The Austrian composer, now enjoying a resurgence of popularly some 100 years after his death, wrote the piece as a love letter to his wife, Alma.<\/p>\n

[320left]\u201cI have never been as excited to conduct a piece of music as I am about this,\u201d Wolynec said. \u201cI don\u2019t know that music gets more beautiful than this particular piece. It\u2019s a 10-mintue love letter from Gustav to his wife. But it\u2019s not syrupy sweet. It\u2019s very profound.\u201d<\/p>\n

The evening will conclude with a performance of English composer Benjamin Britten\u2019s \u201cSimply Symphony.\u201d The late composer, who was born 100 years ago this year, incorporated several elements of his youthful musical education into this work.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s his \u2018Simple Symphony,\u2019 which is a very misleading title,\u201d Wolynec said. \u201cIt is very difficult for the orchestra. The work itself is very interesting. As a little kid, he wrote lots of music but none of it was any good. As a young celebrated composer, he took a number of ideas from those youthful works and turned it into this beautiful piece for a string orchestra.\u201d<\/p>\n

The orchestra will host an encore performance of \u201cRomantic Strings\u201d at 7:30pm on October 28th at the Downtown Presbyterian Church in Nashville, TN.<\/p>\n

For more information on the \u201cRomantic Strings\u201d concert, the GCO 2013-14 season or to purchase tickets, visit the orchestra\u2019s website, www.gatewaychamberorchestra.com<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – Are you familiar with Clarksville\u2019s Gateway Chamber Orchestra? For the last five years, the ensemble \u2013 made up of Austin Peay State University music faculty and other professional musicians \u2013 has hosted acclaimed performances of classical masterworks and garnered serious Grammy consideration with their two recorded albums. Still, the orchestra sometimes feels […]<\/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":[5523,23,16648,2459,262,17990,21070,512,825,21071,21069,10645,4017,5446,6028,4950],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-4iK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16538"}],"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=16538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16539,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16538\/revisions\/16539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}