{"id":4798,"date":"2011-01-12T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=4798"},"modified":"2011-01-11T20:46:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T02:46:40","slug":"classical-composer-schoenfield-visits-apsu-as-acuff-chair-of-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/01\/12\/classical-composer-schoenfield-visits-apsu-as-acuff-chair-of-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical composer Schoenfield visits APSU as Acuff Chair of Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Clarksville, TN<\/strong> – The classical composer Paul Schoenfield is known for his daring combinations of musical forms. It isn\u2019t unusual for works to be infused with jazz or ragtime, alongside more cultivated and conventional elements. It\u2019s what causes his compositions to be considered so wildly original and accessible, and has lead Schoenfield to be called one of the finest American composers working today.<\/p>\n

On January 18th, Schoenfield will come to Austin Peay State University for a weeklong visit as one of this year\u2019s Acuff Chairs of Excellence for the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts. His visit will culminate in a free concert of his work, \u201cThe Music of Paul Schoenfield,\u201d at 7:30pm on January 24th, in the Music\/Mass Communication Building\u2019s Concert Hall. The event will be part of APSU\u2019s Dimension\u2019s Concert Series.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019ll be playing, which is unusual because we\u2019ve never had an Acuff Chair composer playing his own music before,\u201d Jeffrey Wood, APSU professor of music, said. \u201cHe\u2019ll be doing some new pieces with (APSU music faculty members) Emily Crane and Mingzhe Wang. These are very new pieces that have not received a lot of performances. I think it will be a really extraordinary concert.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Acuff Chair of Excellence. Schoenfield is the fourth recipient of the chair this academic year. He was preceded in the fall by Acuff Chair holders The Ying String Quartet, Sidney Gullaume and William Bennett. Each Acuff Chair gives a public performance and visits the campus for about a week.
\nSchoenfield will spend the week prior to his concert visiting classrooms and getting to know APSU music students.<\/p>\n

\"Acuff\u201cDuring his residency, he\u2019s going to be working with composition and piano students,\u201d Wood said. \u201cThere will be a good deal of one-on-one time between Schoenfield and the students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schoenfield currently teaches at the University of Michigan, which has a well-regarded graduate program in music. Wood hopes the relationships forged between his students and the visiting chair will lead to some of them pursing advanced degrees up north.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it will be good for them,\u201d he said. \u201cIt might actually lead to some serious career contacts for our students.\u201d<\/p>\n

During Schoenfield\u2019s residency, Wood is also trying to set up a lecture on the composer\u2019s music and other interests. Schoenfield\u2019s work often draws on the Jewish culture and traditions he grew up with in Detroit. He is also an avid student of the Talmud, and has a home in Israel.<\/p>\n

For more information on Schoenfield or his upcoming free performance, contact the APSU Department of Music at 931-221-7818.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – The classical composer Paul Schoenfield is known for his daring combinations of musical forms. It isn\u2019t unusual for works to be infused with jazz or ragtime, alongside more cultivated and conventional elements. It\u2019s what causes his compositions to be considered so wildly original and accessible, and has lead Schoenfield to be called […]<\/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":[23,6026,589,6027,4025,262,5822,341,5451,6028,6029,6030,6031,6032,5520],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-1fo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798"}],"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=4798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4799,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions\/4799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}