MURFREESBORO — An
MTSU professor whose musical compositions give voice to the words of a
first-century B.C. poet will be the guest on the next edition of the “MTSU On
the Record” radio program.
Host Gina Logue’s interview with Dr. Michael Linton will air
from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Monday, March 2, and from 8 to 8:30 a.m. Sunday, March 8,
on WMOT-FM (89.5 and www.wmot.org).
Linton, a professor of music theory, wrote the music for
“Carmina Catulli,” a CD of songs using the poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus,
one of the most acclaimed poets of the ancient world. Portions of the album are
integrated into the broadcast.
Catullus, a contemporary of Julius Caesar, explored the
depths of human emotion, ranging from unbridled sexual passion to painful melancholy.
Jason Paul Peterson provided the piano accompaniment, and
baritone Edwin Crossley-Mercer sang Catullus’ words in the original Latin
language. MTSU recording industry professor Michael Fleming produced the CD.
“Some of the movements, which you really certainly can call
atonal, are just the way I write,” said Linton. “And some are completely tonal
and lyric … One of the things you have to do when you put together a dramatic
work like this … is you have to have a variety of long things and short things,
happy things and sad things, loud, slow, fast, soft. You need that variety.”
Writing for Opera News, the publication of the Metropolitan
Opera Guild in New York, critic Joshua Rosenblum called Linton’s work “music of
an eclectic but coherent and distinctive style, contemporary but otherworldly.”
To listen to previous “MTSU On the Record” programs, go to
http://www.mtsunews.com/ontherecord/.
For more information, contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or
WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.
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