{"id":8465,"date":"2011-10-08T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=8465"},"modified":"2011-10-08T01:03:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T06:03:44","slug":"choral-music-of-alfreds-feils-focus-of-next-session-in-the-apsu-provost-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/10\/08\/choral-music-of-alfreds-feils-focus-of-next-session-in-the-apsu-provost-lecture-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Choral music of Alfreds Feils focus of next session in the APSU Provost Lecture Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Alfreds Feils is a composer with whom many musicians are not familiar.<\/p>\n

Feils, a Latvian choral conductor, composed music that is largely unknown both inside and outside of Latvia. This topic will be the focus of the next session of the Provost Lecture Series at Austin Peay State University.<\/p>\n

Dr. Korre Foster, assistant professor of music, will present \u201cThe Choral Music of Alfreds Feils\u201d from 3:00pm-4:30pm, Thursday, October 13th in the Morgan University Center, Room 303. All presentations in the Provost Lecture Series are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

\"Dr.<\/a>

Dr. Korre Foster<\/p><\/div>\n

This past July, Foster traveled to the capital city of Riga to locate library manuscripts of Feils\u2019 music, interview the composer\u2019s daughter and research biographical details of his life.<\/p>\n

Foster is in his third year as director of choral activities at APSU. He graduated in 2009 from the University of Miami (FL) with a D.M.A. in choral conducting. His primary research interests include the influence of rhetoric in music composition, choral music set to texts of Walt Whitman, and the French Baroque music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier.<\/p>\n

Other sessions in the Provost Lecture Series also are planned for the academic year. All sessions are from 3:00pm-4:30pm in the MUC, Room 303 (unless noted otherwise) and include the following:<\/p>\n

October 20th:<\/strong> Susan Bryant, professor of art
\nOctober 27th:<\/strong> Angelina Fowler, Center of Excellence for Field Biology
\nNovember 3rd:<\/strong> Dr. Dan Frederick, professor of geology and geography
\nNovember 10th:<\/strong> Dr. Kathrine Flower, assistant professor of sociology
\nNovember 17th:<\/strong> Darren Michael, associate professor of theater and dance
\nDecember 1st:<\/strong> Dr. Tim Leszczak, assistant professor of health and human performance
\nJanuary 12th:<\/strong> Dr. Ellen Smyth, instructor of mathematics
\nJanuary 19th:<\/strong> Dr. Ann Silverberg, professor of music
\nJanuary 26th:<\/strong> Dr. Marsha Lyle-Gonga, assistant professor of political science
\nFebruary 2nd:<\/strong> Dr. Rebecca Johansen, assistant professor of biology
\nFebruary 9th:<\/strong> Dr. Sergei Markov, associate professor of biology
\nFebruary 16th:<\/strong> Cynthia Marsh, professor of art
\nFebruary 23rd:<\/strong> Dr. Christine Mathenge, associate professor of geology
\nMarch 1st:<\/strong> Dr. Robert Shelton, associate professor of chemistry
\nMarch 15th, MUC 307:<\/strong> Dr. Allyn Smith, associate professor of physics
\nMarch 22nd:<\/strong> Dr. Sharon Mabry, professor of music
\nMarch 29th:<\/strong> Dr. Cameron Sutt, assistant professor of history
\nApril 5th:<\/strong> Mark DeYoung, assistant professor of art
\nApril 12th:<\/strong> Dr. Tim Winters, professor of English
\nApril 19th, MUC 103:<\/strong> Dr. Jeffrey Wood, professor of music<\/p>\n

The Provost Lecture Series seeks to foster a spirit of intellectual and scholarly inquiry among faculty, staff and students. The program will be used as a platform for APSU faculty members who are recent recipients of provost summer grants, who have been awarded faculty development leaves and who have engaged in recent scholarly inquiry during sabbatical leaves.<\/p>\n

APSU faculty members with recent research of acclaim also will be given a platform within this series. In addition, other faculty members of local or widespread renown will be invited to lecture within this series.<\/p>\n

For more information about the Provost Lecture Series, call Dr. Brian Johnson, assistant vice president of academic affairs at APSU, at 931.221.7992 or email him at johnsonb@apsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – Alfreds Feils is a composer with whom many musicians are not familiar. Feils, a Latvian choral conductor, composed music that is largely unknown both inside and outside of Latvia. This topic will be the focus of the next session of the Provost Lecture Series at Austin Peay State University. Dr. Korre Foster, […]<\/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":[11059,7793,10153,10202,23,4402,1355,7255,262,4699,10161,10159,10203,10154,5621,10157,5451,10155,5592,10162,8023,4694,10160,4696,524,7962,10156,10163,7545],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-2cx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465"}],"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=8465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8467,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions\/8467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}