MURFREESBORO — MTSU’s Stones River Chamber
Players will perform new musical works by two MTSU professors alongside
classics by two legendary European composers in their final concert of the
2015-16 season, set for Monday, April 11.
“Spring
Stretto,” which is set for 7:30 p.m. April 11 in Hinton Music Hall inside
MTSU's Wright Music Building, features the creations of MTSU’s Paul Osterfield
and Jamey Simmons and those of Austrian
composer Franz Schubert and Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů.
The performance
by the ensemble members, all of whom teach in MTSU’s School of Music, is free
and open to the public.
Music
faculty Michael Parkinson, Brian Mueller and Tisha Simeral will perform
“Lullaby for Michelle” with Parkinson on trumpet, Mueller on vibraphone and
Simeral on Bass. Osterfield created the piece for his daughter, who was born in
2013.
Simmons
composed “Musical Postcards From God’s Country” during family outings to the
Rocky Mountains, Appalachian Trail and Oregon and in tribute to
environmentalist John Muir. He’ll be joined in the performance by Michael Arndt
on trumpet, Ben Miles on tuba, David Loucky on trombone, Don Aliquo on saxophone
and Angela Tipps on the organ.
Soprano Dina Cancryn, clarinetist Todd Waldecker and
pianist Adam Clark will perform Schubert’s “The Shepherd on the Rock, D. 965,”
which Arunesh Nadgir, MTSU piano professor and co-director of the Stones River
Chamber Players, called “a beautiful and powerful piece.”
Rounding out the program is Martinů’s “Quartet for
Oboe, Violin, Cello and Piano,” performed by Laura Ann Ross on oboe, Andrea Dawson on violin,
Christine Kim on cello and Clark
on piano. Martinů created the piece while in exile in the United States in
1947, Ross said.
You can
listen to streaming audio performances by the Stones River Chamber Players at http://www.mtsu.edu/music/srcp.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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