{"id":8897,"date":"2011-11-08T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=8897"},"modified":"2011-11-08T03:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T09:35:00","slug":"governors-singers-bring-the-little-match-girl-passion-to-apsu-november-22nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/11\/08\/governors-singers-bring-the-little-match-girl-passion-to-apsu-november-22nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Governors Singers bring &#8220;The Little Match Girl Passion&#8221; to APSU November 22nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-95649\" title=\"APSU Department of Music\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/APSU-Department-of-Music.gif\" alt=\"APSU Department of Music\" width=\"250\" height=\"105\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The little match girl, the protagonist of Hans Christian Anderson\u2019s 1845 story of the same name, is a poor child who, on a cold winter evening, tries to sell matches to help feed her family.<\/p>\n<p>As the night progresses, no one pays attention to the girl, and she\u2019s forced to light one match after another to keep warm. She eventually runs out, and the story ends with the death of the poor little match girl.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a heartbreaking tale that American composer David Lang adapted in 2007 into his Pulitzer Prize-winning composition, \u201cThe Little Match Girl Passion.\u201d The Los Angeles Times called the piece \u201ca rare bird in contemporary classical music: a broadly accessible work on which critics as well as the public bestow their blessings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At 7:30pm on November 22nd, the Austin Peay State University Governors Singers, under the direction of conductor Korre Foster, are bringing this moving work to the University\u2019s Music\/Mass Communication Building\u2019s Concert Hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to ask people to bring cans of food for entry, and we\u2019re going to give them to Loaves and Fishes,\u201d Foster said. \u201cThat feeds into the story of nobody helping the little match girl, so we\u2019re going to make this into a philanthropy event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The work, which fits into the minimalist style, was also inspired by Bach\u2019s St. Matthew Passion. This artistic combination of ideas is part of what makes the composition so compelling, Foster said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLang takes the story by Hans Christian Anderson, but he puts the word \u2018passion\u2019 after it,\u201d he said. \u201cUsually, the passion is the story of Jesus up until the crucifixion. This is a passion story, but it\u2019s about the little match girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The November 22nd performance will feature work singers and percussion, along with Dr. George Mabry, emeritus professor of music at APSU, as a guest speaker.<\/p>\n<p>For information on the concert, contact Foster at <a href=\"mailto:fosterk@apsu.edu\">fosterk@apsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/match-girl-poster.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-95650\" title=\"The Little Match Girl Passion\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/match-girl-poster-310x480.jpg\" alt=\"The Little Match Girl Passion\" width=\"310\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; The little match girl, the protagonist of Hans Christian Anderson\u2019s 1845 story of the same name, is a poor child who, on a cold winter evening, tries to sell matches to help feed her family. As the night progresses, no one pays attention to the girl, and she\u2019s forced to light one [&hellip;]<\/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":[23,1129,4025,262,11583,11581,4375,11579,5592,223,11580,11582],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-2jv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897"}],"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=8897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8899,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions\/8899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}