{"id":5276,"date":"2011-02-21T03:53:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T09:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=5276"},"modified":"2011-02-21T04:01:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T10:01:02","slug":"grammy-nominated-gateway-chamber-ensemble-to-perform-tonight-at-apsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/02\/21\/grammy-nominated-gateway-chamber-ensemble-to-perform-tonight-at-apsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy-nominated Gateway Chamber Ensemble to Perform Tonight at APSU"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – To say that the Gateway Chamber Ensemble\u2019s first CD, \u201cWind Serenades,\u201d was a success is a bit of an understatement. Late last year, the group founded by several Austin Peay State University music faculty members learned their album was being considered for Grammy nominations in several categories \u2013 including producer of the year, engineered sound and best small ensemble performance.<\/p>\n

\u201c(They) have managed to assemble a top-notch performing ensemble that now enters the big leagues with the national and international release of its new super audio CD,\u201d music critic Steven Ritter wrote last year in Fanfare Magazine, the leading classical music publication in the country.<\/p>\n

\"Gateway<\/a>

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

The Gateway Chamber Ensemble was ultimately recognized with a producer of the year Grammy nomination \u2013 an incredible achievement for a debut CD. At 7:30pm on Monday, February 21st, the group will bring its innovative approach to classical music back to the Clarksville community with a concert, titled \u201cWind Serenades III,\u201d in the APSU Music\/Mass Communication Building\u2019s Concert Hall.<\/p>\n

The evening\u2019s program will feature classic works by German composer Felix Mendelssohn, Romanian composer George Enescu and American composer Arthur Bird. The lineup follows the ensemble\u2019s philosophy of performing pieces that don\u2019t have a \u201cnatural home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOrchestras don\u2019t do these pieces because they\u2019re too small, small chamber ensembles don\u2019t do them because they\u2019re too large,\u201d Dr. Gregory Wolynec, APSU associate professor of music and director of the ensemble, said. \u201cSo there\u2019s this large body of work that we\u2019re capitalizing on, some of which happen to be pieces for chamber wind ensembles, which have an even smaller pool of places that these pieces can be played.\u201d<\/p>\n

The concert will begin with a performance of Mendelssohn\u2019s \u201cNocturno,\u201d a piece written by the composer when he was only 16 years old.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sounds as mature as works he wrote later in life,\u201d Wolynec said. \u201cHe\u2019s famous for his piano concertos and his symphonies, but this wind work, the \u2018Nocturno,\u2019 is a beautiful piece.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next work, which Wolynec believes might be the highlight of the evening, will be a performance of Enescu\u2019s \u201cDixtour.\u201d The piece represents the composer\u2019s painstaking obsession with perfection.<\/p>\n

\"Gateway<\/a>

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

\u201cHe only completed 33 numbered works,\u201d Wolynec said. \u201cMozart had more than 600. Bach over 1,000. It was assumed for a long time it was because he was such a prevalent teacher and performer, but it turns out he was a perfectionist of the absolute highest order. His works that were actually published are impeccable. They are constructed in a way that is really mindboggling in terms of the quality of the way he uses the individual parts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second movement (of \u2018Dixtour\u2019) is one of the most beautiful things I\u2019ve ever studied and that we will ever perform,\u201d he said. \u201cJust beautiful music. Haunting Romanian folk melody combined with a spritely peasant dance part way through it. At the end of the movement he actually finds a way to combine these two ideas that have nothing to do with each other into a cohesive and beautiful whole.\u201d<\/p>\n

The evening will conclude with Bird\u2019s \u201cSerenade for Wind Instruments.\u201d The composer was raised outside of Boston, but he traveled to Germany at an early age for training. He went on to become the most performed American composer in all of Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have this beautiful work from the early part of the 20th century written by him for a chamber wind ensemble,\u201d Wolynec said. \u201cI think all these pieces are readily approachable by the novice concert goer but there\u2019s real depth and substance to all of them that returning patrons will appreciate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tickets for the February 21st concert are $12.00 for adults, $8.00 for students and $25.00 for a family of four. For more information on this event, contact the APSU Department of Music at 931-221-7818. Additional information on the ensemble, including how to buy copies of the \u201cWind Serenades\u201d CD for $15.00, is available on the website www.gatewaychamberensemble.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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