{"id":26637,"date":"2018-11-30T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=26637"},"modified":"2018-11-29T22:38:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T04:38:14","slug":"acuff-chair-jones-to-perform-december-1st-in-austin-peay-mabry-concert-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2018\/11\/30\/acuff-chair-jones-to-perform-december-1st-in-austin-peay-mabry-concert-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Acuff Chair Jones to perform December 1st in Austin Peay Mabry Concert Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Austin Peay State University (APSU)<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324279\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-APSU.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" width=\"250\" height=\"64\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The acclaimed pianist Warren Jones, a distinguished long-time faculty member at Manhattan School of Music and the Music Academy of the West, will present a free public concert to the Clarksville community at 7:30pm, Saturday, December 1st, 2018 in the Austin Peay State University (APSU) Mabry Concert Hall.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_439498\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Acclaimed-pianist-Warren-Jones.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-439498\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-439498\" title=\"Acclaimed pianist Warren Jones to perform at APSU.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Acclaimed-pianist-Warren-Jones-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Acclaimed pianist Warren Jones to perform at APSU.\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-439498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acclaimed pianist Warren Jones to perform at APSU.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jones is at Austin Peay State University this week as the recipient of the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts\u2019 Acuff Chair of Excellence.<\/p>\n<p>In 1985, country-music legend Roy Acuff generously endowed the chair at APSU, which brings nationally acclaimed artists to campus each year to work with students and the community.<\/p>\n<p>While at Austin Peay, Jones has visited classrooms, conducted lectures and hosted 24 private coaching sessions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWarren is an absolute gift to the field of music,\u201d Dr. Jeffrey Williams, APSU assistant professor of voice, said.<\/p>\n<p>Jones received the Music Teachers National Association of America\u2019s 2011 Achievement Award, the organization\u2019s highest honor. In 2010 he was named Collaborative Pianist of the Year by the publication Musical America.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Warren Jones performs Chopin\u2019s Mazurkas, Op. 67\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AlF3B3s3Ehk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He has been an invited guest at the White House to perform for state dinners in honor of the leaders of Canada, Russia and Italy; and three times the invited guest of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court for musical afternoons in the East Conference Room at the Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Peay State University (APSU) Clarksville, TN &#8211; The acclaimed pianist Warren Jones, a distinguished long-time faculty member at Manhattan School of Music and the Music Academy of the West, will present a free public concert to the Clarksville community at 7:30pm, Saturday, December 1st, 2018 in the Austin Peay State University (APSU) Mabry Concert [&hellip;]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[6645,23,589,16648,262,825,23888,4376,32924],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6VD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26637"}],"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=26637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26638,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26637\/revisions\/26638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}