{"id":5776,"date":"2011-03-30T22:59:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T03:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=5776"},"modified":"2011-03-30T22:59:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T03:59:01","slug":"apsu-percussion-ensemble-performs-free-spring-concert-on-march-31st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/03\/30\/apsu-percussion-ensemble-performs-free-spring-concert-on-march-31st\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU Percussion Ensemble Performs Free Spring Concert on March 31st"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Anyone familiar with Austin Peay State University music professor David Steinquest\u2019s annual Percussion Ensemble Halloween Concerts, with their strange mixture of music and mayhem, won\u2019t be surprised to learn that even the traditional spring performances he organizes are marked by a wild originality.<\/p>\n

Audience members attending the free percussion ensemble concert at 7:30pm on March 31st in the Music\/Mass Communication Building\u2019s Concert Hall will be treated to everything from sisters playing part of the score to \u201cSchindler\u2019s List\u201d to an orchestra performing the Pizzicato Polka using only plastic tubes known as boom-wackers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you hit them, they sound a pitch,\u201d Steinquest said. He smiled slightly and added, \u201cBecause it\u2019s an orchestral kind of piece, and (APSU music professor) Greg Wolynec is our conductor for orchestra, I roped him into conducting this piece for a bunch of plastic tubes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steinquest is clearly enjoying himself, but he\u2019s serious about the program he\u2019s organized of powerful, diverse works centered on a subtle theme of pairs. Each piece has some hidden association within it, either to its sound, its presentation or to something maybe outside the audience\u2019s understanding.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot that I always have to have a theme, but it seems this one has kind of happened where it is a pairing of things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The evening opens with a pairing of the University Choir and the percussion ensemble performing the patriotic song, \u201cAmerica the Beautiful.\u201d That will be followed by the ensemble taking up F. Michael Combs\u2019 \u201cAntiphon,\u201d which takes on the idea of \u201cpairs\u201d within the music itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an all percussion piece that separates the sounds, where the music goes back and fourth,\u201d Steinquest said. \u201cWhat we have are two completely separate groupings, and it\u2019s sort of like they\u2019re fighting back and forth. There\u2019s all this sonic movement across the stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Austin Peay State University graduate student Nelson Logan will conduct that piece. His presence as a second conductor adds another level to the night\u2019s \u201cpairing\u201d theme.<\/p>\n

But perhaps the most visible example of this theme will come during the next work, a performance of \u201cRemembrances\u201d from John Williams\u2019 score of the film \u201cSchindler\u2019s List.\u201d That piece will feature two soloists with a personal connection.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re doing is actually pairing sisters,\u201d Steinquest said. \u201cAlison McKelvey was a music major here on violin. She has since graduated and plays with the Nashville Symphony sometimes. Her sister, Clair Davis, is now a music major playing harp. I talked to Clair and got Clair to talk to Alison. So we have this pairing of two soloists with the ensemble, but also this cool thing that it\u2019s this sister act.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pizzicato Polka, performed with the plastic tubes, will follow that work. The remainder of the program will consist of equally eclectic works, including Robert Kelly\u2019s \u201cToccata for Marimba and Percussion Ensemble,\u201d Warren Benson\u2019s \u201cStreams,\u201d and a pair of jazz works by Pat Metheny \u2013 \u201cFarmer\u2019s Trust\u201d and \u201cPhase Dance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Percussion Ensemble consists of APSU students Holly Brown, Zach Brown, Alex Brunt, Allison Campbell, Andrea De Jesus, Andrew Dever, T.J. Lawrence, Nelson Logan, Kirby Newman, Kacee Sanders, Cody Satterwhite and Jacob Winters.<\/p>\n

This free concert is open to the public. For more information, contact the APSU Department of Music at 931-221-7818.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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