May 1: MTSU Orchestra to play student’s work
The performance will be the orchestra’s final concert of the season and is set for 8 p.m. May 1 in the Wright Music Building Music Hall at MTSU.
“Parman is an amazing talent and we’ll hear much from him in the future,” Nies says. “The movement we are performing is a composition of great beauty.”
“The Day Before” is actually a three-movement work. The orchestra will premiere the second movement, while the third movement will receive its first performance by a chamber music ensemble on WPLN’s (90.3 FM) “Live from Studio C” broadcast on May 25.
“‘The Day Before’ began as a sextet that I wrote for a class,” explains Parman, a Franklin native who is a senior theory and composition major, “and Dr. Nies asked me to expand the work for full orchestra.
“The piece has no particular inspiration or symbolism; however, it does have a specific mood,” he adds. “The title and the piece have a certain duality — you can look at the music as an anticipation of things to come or as a reflection on past regret.”
Other works that will be performed by the orchestra May 1 include Finale to Dvorak’s “New World Symphony,” von Supp?’s “Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna” and Rimsky-Korsakov’s virtuosic “Russian Easter Overture.”
Under the direction of Nies, the now 75-member ensemble has grown from a band of about 20 members to its current complete instrumentation in only three years. Its membership comprises students from all colleges of the university and performs regular concerts on the MTSU campus, as well as featured performances for local ceremonies and events
Admission to the May 1 concert is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact the McLean School of Music at 898-2493.