{"id":5797,"date":"2011-04-01T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2011-04-01T00:00:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T05:00:30","slug":"gateway-chamber-ensemble-finishes-season-with-works-and-influences-of-schoenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/04\/01\/gateway-chamber-ensemble-finishes-season-with-works-and-influences-of-schoenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Gateway Chamber Ensemble Finishes Season with Works and Influences of Schoenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – In 2008, a group of Austin Peay State University music faculty members set themselves a challenge. They intended to perform Arnold Schoenberg\u2019s Chamber Symphony, Opus Nine, for 15 Soloists \u2013 one of the most important, yet challenging, compositions from the 20th century.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s daunting. The demands on individual players are great,\u201d Dr. Gregory Wolynec, associate professor of music, said.<\/p>\n

\"APSU's<\/a>

APSU's Gateway Chamber Ensemble <\/p><\/div>\n

The group of professors, along with some of the region\u2019s most noted musicians, called themselves the Gateway Chamber Ensemble, and that night in 2008, they successfully took up the challenge of Schoenberg\u2019s work. Three years and one Grammy nomination later, the ensemble is finishing its first subscription season in Clarksville with another stab at Schoenberg\u2019s masterwork.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to tackle the piece that brought us all together,\u201d Wolynec, the ensemble\u2019s conductor, said. \u201cThis work is the culmination of the Viennese tradition that started with Haydn and Mozart and continued through Schubert and Brahms, even Johann Strauss Jr., before getting to people like Anton Bruckner and Gustav Mahler. In many ways, Schoenberg was the end of that lineage and also the point of departure to what we now call \u2018modernism.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The concert, \u201cSchoenberg and His Influences,\u201d opens at 7:30pm on April 4th in the APSU Music\/Mass Communication Building\u2019s Concert Hall. Tickets are $12.00 for adults, $8.00 for students and military and $25.00 for a family of four.<\/p>\n

The concert will open with \u201cSiegfried Idyll,\u201d a piece by German composer Richard Wagner that influenced Schoenberg. Wagner wrote the 1870 composition for his wife, commemorating the birth of their son.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wrote the music, organized and rehearsed this small orchestra of 13 players, and she woke up on her birthday to the sounds of music coming from the staircase,\u201d Wolynec said. \u201cIt is absolutely beautiful and probably Wagner\u2019s most performed work. And we\u2019re going to do it in its original setting, as it was done in the hallway with only 13 players.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Gateway<\/a>The program will then feature a performance of Johann Strauss Jr.\u2019s \u201cKaiserwalzer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSchoenberg would frequently host in Vienna small, intimate concerts where they organized arrangements of incredibly complicated works,\u201d Wolynec said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to perform one of Schoenberg\u2019s own arrangements of Strauss\u2019s \u2018Kaiserwalzer,\u2019 which is incredibly charming and light natured.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following the Strauss work, the ensemble will perform an original composition by Heather Stebbins, a graduate student at Boston University. Stebbins was the winner of the 2010 Young Composers Competition, sponsored by the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts. She will be in attendance while the ensemble performs the composition, \u201cagain and again, however we know this landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s perfectly appropriate to have her music on this program because one of the things Schoenberg is remembered for is his students and championing the works of young composers,\u201d Wolynec said.<\/p>\n

The second half of the concert will feature the ensemble again taking up the challenge of Schoenberg\u2019s Chamber Symphony, Opus Nine, for 15 Soloists. The final note that evening will officially end the ensemble\u2019s inaugural concert season, which featured a variety of works by composers such as Haydn, Copeland, Barber, Schreker, Enescue and C.P.E. Bach.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had wonderful audiences, and I can\u2019t think of a better piece to close our first subscription season with than Schoenberg\u2019s \u2018Chamber Symphony,\u2019\u201d Wolynec said.<\/p>\n

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

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