MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — The Stones River Chamber Players, MTSU’s
faculty ensemble-in-residence, continue their 2017-18 season Monday, Feb. 12,
with a free concert, “Tributes,” honoring composers Claude Debussy, Gioachino
Rossini and Leonard Bernstein.
The
ensemble members, all of whom teach in MTSU’s School of Music, will perform at
7:30 p.m. Feb. 12 in Hinton Music Hall inside MTSU's Wright Music Building.
The
concert will feature music that marks important anniversaries for each composer
in 2018: Bernstein’s 100th birthday and the 150th and 100th anniversaries of
Rossini’s and Debussy’s respective deaths.
MTSU
clarinet professor Todd Waldecker
arranged the opening performance of the overture to Bernstein’s operetta,
“Candide,” for wind quintet.
“I was a
member of a woodwind quintet as an undergraduate student, and we were always
searching for exciting and entertaining pieces to play," said
Waldecker. "Bernstein's orchestral overture to ‘Candide’ was a
favorite piece of mine, so I spent an entire Christmas break transcribing it
for our ensemble. I'm thrilled to dust it off after all these years and
perform it again with my SRCP colleagues."
Waldecker
will perform the work with his colleagues: oboist Rebecca Van de Ven, flutist Deanna
Little, bassoonist Gil Perel and
horn player Angela DeBoer.
Other
works by Bernstein on the program include five short pieces for various
combinations of brass and piano that honor family or friends’ pets: “Elegy for
Mippy I and II” “Waltz for Mippy,” “Rondo for Lifey” and “Fanfare for Bima.”
The group
will present two duets by Rossini, “La regata veneziana” and “La pesca,” by sopranos
Christine Isley-Farmer and Dina Cancryn, accompanied by pianist Joseph Walker.
The
evening will conclude with a performance of Debussy’s “Trio in G Major for
Violin, Cello and Piano,” a four-movement work written when the composer was
only 18 years old.
MTSU
professor Arunesh Nadgir will play piano
on the work alongside violinist Andrea
Dawson and cellist Christine Kim.
The
group’s 2017-18 season will conclude Monday, March 26, with a “Roads Not
Traveled” concert featuring works by Steve Rouse, Alessandro Scarlatti, Jin
Zhang, Michael Burritt and Robert Delanoff.
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