A free concert of music for clarinet, bassoon and piano will be held at 8 p.m. Aug. 27 in the Hinton Music Hall of the Wright Music Building at MTSU, featuring MTSU School of Music faculty member Todd Waldecker (clarinet) and UT Knoxville School of Music faculty members Fay Adams (piano) and Keith McClelland (bassoon).
The trio will perform “Trio in G Minor” by British composer William Yeates Hurlstone; “Suite No. 2” by American composer Alec Wilder, “Figarellos' Morningsong” by Austrian composer Alfred Prinz; and “Suite Cantando” by American composer Bill Douglas.
"The ‘Trio in G Minor’ is romantically lush and similar to Brahms, while the music of Alec Wilder combines elements of the jazz, popular, and classical realms,” Waldecker said. “(Wilder's) compositions number in the several hundred, covering every medium including chamber and orchestral music, opera, musical theater and popular song."
Regarding the work ‘Figarellos' Morningsong,’ Waldecker said that composer Prinz took on a humorous approach to the music from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro.
"The musical snippets make it ‘sound like it came from the workshop of a crazy musician', according to the composer," Waldecker explained.
As for the final work, ‘Suite Cantando,’ Waldecker said that the movements “hint at the sounds of a samba, ancient chant, Miles Davis and bebop."
Pianist Adams is associate professor of piano at the University of Tennessee and is president and director of the Suzuki Piano School of Knoxville.
In 1996, she was named the Tennessee Teacher of the Year by the Tennessee Music Teachers Association and has received the Outstanding Teacher Award from the Tennessee Governor’s School. She is a former member of the Suzuki Association Board of Directors, past president of the Tennessee Music Teachers Association and president-elect of Southern Division of MTNA.
Bassoonist McClelland is currently a music professor at UT and has appeared as a soloist with the Knoxville Symphony many times, as well as performing as a soloist with the Oak Ridge and Johnson City symphonies. He has performed in numerous solo and chamber music recitals in East Tennessee, throughout the eastern United States and in England.
Clarinetist Waldecker is associate professor of clarinet at MTSU, where he was a recipient of the 2006 MTSU Foundation Outstanding Teacher Award. He is also a faculty member of the summer Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts.
As a member of MTSU’s Stones River Chamber Players, he has performed throughout the southern United States, Europe. He is a frequent guest performer with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and has recorded with the orchestra for Decca, NAXOS and National Public Television. Since 1999 he has also served as principal clarinetist with Orchestra Nashville and has recorded and toured nationally with the ensemble.
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