MURFREESBORO — The Stones River Chamber Players,
MTSU’s ensemble in residence, will conclude their 2014-15 season with a free
public concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 6, in
Hinton Music Hall inside MTSU's Wright Music Building.
The ensemble
members, all of whom teach in MTSU’s School of Music, will include the premiere
performance of “Out of the Blue” by Günter Möll.
MTSU music
faculty Deanna Little, Andrea Dawson, Todd Waldecker and William Yelverton will
be featured in the Möll piece, with Little on flute, Dawson on violin,
Waldecker on clarinet and Yelverton on guitar.
“This is
his (Möll's) best and most challenging chamber work to date,” said Yelverton. “He
combines jazz influenced melody with complex rhythms, driving pedal tones and
crescendoing ostinatos. His style is hard to describe, but I find it modern,
yet accessible.
“The piece
ranges from austere and intense, to quirky and humorous. Since Möll is a
guitarist, he really composes well for the instrument, and the guitar takes a
very important and sometimes central role in this piece. It's a great addition
to guitar chamber music repertoire."
The Stones
River Chamber Players also will present Peter Schickele’s “Clarinet Quartet” at
the April 6 concert, when Waldecker and Dawson will perform with Christine Kim on
cello and Adam Clark on piano.
"I've
always enjoyed the compositional language of Schickele,” said Waldecker. “This
quartet beautifully illustrates both his sensitive and quirky styles."
You can
listen to streaming audio performances by the Stones River Chamber Players at http://www.mtsu.edu/music/srcpabout.php.
For details on more MTSU School of Music performances, call 615-898-2493 or
visit http://www.mtsumusic.com and
click on the "Concert Calendar" link.
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