{"id":66752,"date":"2022-08-22T10:29:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=66752"},"modified":"2022-08-22T10:29:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:29:37","slug":"hays-symphony-to-perform-outdoor-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=66752","title":{"rendered":"Hays Symphony to perform outdoor concert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hays Symphony will present an Outdoor Pops Concert: Pops Potpourri; a Jazzy Salute to Fiddling Fun from Leroy Anderson, Morton Gould, and George Gershwin, as part of the Hays Arts Council\u2019s Art Walk Friday, August 26th, at 7:30 p.m., in the Hays Pavilion,10th &amp; Main Streets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nensemble is under the direction of Dr. Brian Buckstead, FHSU assistant\nprofessor of violin and viola. Each featured composer offers a unique\nrepresentation of music from the Twentieth Century. This group of American\ncomposers, Leroy Anderson, George Gershwin, Morton Gould, and Richard Hayman,\nwere all giants in their field, creating a kind of American songbook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once\nconsidered America\u2019s favorite \u2018pop\u2019 conductor, Richard Hayman conducted a\nmyriad of ensembles throughout the eastern U.S., eventually becoming the chief\narranger for the Boston Pops during Arthur Fielder\u2019s tenure. His Pops Hoedown\nis a kind of \u2018Yeehaar,\u2019 barnyard romp giving the orchestra musicians quite a\nworkout. Maestro Buckstead programmed several of Leroy Anderson\u2019s works for\nthis concert, the most famous of which is the \u201cSyncopated Clock.\u201d The piece\nfeatures woodblock with a constant rhythmic pulse intertwined with short light\nmelodies in the strings. John Williams described Mr. Anderson as \u201cone of the\ngreatest American masters of light orchestral music.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morton\nGould, considered a child prodigy, had his first composition published at six.\nHe later studied at the prestigious Julliard School and became an accomplished\npianist. He was employed at Radio City Music Hall as a staff pianist, exposing\nhim to both classical and popular programming of the day. \u201cYankee Doodle\u201d was\ninspired by his lifelong endearment of those who served in our armed services.\n\u201cAmerican Salute\u201d was originally written for orchestra (in 24 hours) and then\nlater for band. The work represents Gould\u2019s skill in thematic development; he\ncreates the work based solely upon the melody of \u201cWhen Johnny Comes Marching\nHome.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George\nGershwin, well known for his epic \u201cRhapsody in Blue\u201d and jazzy show-stopping\nBroadway tunes, showed his more reflective side with his \u201cLullaby for Strings.\u201d\nWhen Lullaby was finally published in 1968, Ira Gershwin wrote, \u201cIt may not be\nthe Gershwin of Rhapsody in Blue, Concerto in F, and his other concert works,\nbut I find it charming and kind.\u201d \n\nBring\na lawn chair and enjoy an outdoor concert celebrating American music in this\nPops Potpourri Concert. This free concert and the post-concert reception\nconsisting of cookies and drinks are made possible by Cathy\u2019s Breads and\nAutoWorld.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS The Hays Symphony will present an Outdoor Pops Concert: Pops Potpourri; a Jazzy Salute to Fiddling Fun from Leroy Anderson, Morton Gould,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66753,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66752\/revisions\/66753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}