{"id":19122,"date":"2014-10-27T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T21:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=19122"},"modified":"2014-10-27T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:42:10","slug":"apsus-halloween-concert-returns-for-30th-year-on-october-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2014\/10\/27\/apsus-halloween-concert-returns-for-30th-year-on-october-30th\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU’s Halloween concert returns for 30th year on October 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheClarksville, TN<\/strong> – In July, the phone started ringing in Austin Peay State University\u2019s Department of Music office, with callers interested in buying tickets for an upcoming concert.<\/p>\n

They were a bit early, since the department\u2019s annual Halloween Percussion Concert was still a good three months away, but the callers knew that for 30 years, the wildly entertaining event usually sold out, so there was nothing wrong with being a little premature.<\/p>\n

\"2014<\/a>\u201cWe get calls all summer long, asking when are tickets going on sale for the Halloween concert,\u201d David Steinquest, APSU professor of music, said. \u201cIt generally sells out a week early.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tickets are now on sale for this year\u2019s concert, \u201cThe 30th on the 30th,\u201d celebrating three decades of the popular event, with performances at 6:00pm and 8:00pm on October 30th. Steinquest started the annual concert\u2014featuring Halloween-themed music, performers in costumes and a loose, comical atmosphere\u2014back in the mid-1980s. What started small grew so popular over the years, he was forced to split the evening up into two performances.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople literally got mad,\u201d Steinquest said. \u201cThey tried to come to the concert, and there were no tickets left. I got hate mail.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tickets are still difficult to come by, and this year might offer more of a challenge because Steinquest has a big show planned for the 30th anniversary.<\/p>\n

The program will feature \u201cThis is Halloween,\u201d from the film \u201cThe Nightmare Before Christmas;\u201d \u201cOnce Upon a Dream,\u201d from the recent \u201cMaleficent\u201d movie; Franz Schubert\u2019s \u201cErlk\u00f6nig,\u201c about magical beings attacking a young boy; and a Halloween rap arranged by Steinquest.<\/p>\n

For the last several years, the performers have slipped garbage cans onto the stage to use as drums, and this year, Steinquest is finally embracing the bizarre instruments for a special piece on the program.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause this is the 30th anniversary, it needed to be a big deal,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have done pieces that have involved garbage cans or garbage cans lids. After watching a concert where the percussion group STOMP uses a kitchen sink, I wrote a piece called \u2018The Kitchen Sink and Everything Else.\u2019 It is probably the ultimate percussion novelty piece. It has everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Admission to the Halloween concert is two cans of food, which will be donated to a local charity, or $3.00. Contact the APSU Music Department office at 931.221.7818 for tickets or other information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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