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6 * Th*_Red and Black • Thursday, March 8, 1990
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He likes to get the job done
Talented guest Conductor to direct University Orchestra
By JENNIFER WILKIN
Staff Writer
“What are you, on vacation?" he
demanded of the violin section
when they didn’t play in their en
trance. “Have you ever played this
before?" he asked the wind section
when their pianissimo wasn’t quite
right.
Adrian Gnam, guest conductor
of the University’s Biennial Ora
torio Concert feauturing Brahms’
Requiem, is described by some as
harsh, by others as tenacious; but
everyone will agree that he is an
exceptionally-gifted musician who
gets the job done.
“He won’t accept second-best,”
said John Sweat, a junior perfor
mance mtyor who has worked
under Gnam for the past six years.
“He is very energetic, and his repu
tation speaks for itself.”
Of Gnam’s orchestral tech
niques, Sweat said Gnam is very
personable but also very driven.
“He makes a marked difference
between the time for work and the
time for fun — with him, there’s no
question what time it is,” he said.
“He always brings out the best in
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us because of his attitude."
Though Sweat is one of Gnam’s
younger charges as a violinist in
the Macon Symphony, Sweat said
Gnam is always fair in his dealings
with everyone in the orchestra.
‘That’s one of his biggest pluses;
he never comes across like he’s God
and we’re his little workers,” he
said.
Whether or not he comes across
as God on the podium, he certainly
must have divine assistance to
achieve all that his career en
gagements demand. As Music Di
rector and Conductor of the Macon
Symphony Orchestra and the Sym
phony in Eugene, Ore. where he
makes his home, he spends about
two, sometimes three weeks out of
every month away from home.
‘This particular trip is three
weeks long, and it gets a little
lonely at times,” he said with a
smile that seemed a bit rueful.
That doesn’t leave much time for
golfing, his favorite pastime. How
ever, he and Thomas Joiner, Con
ductor of the University Symphony
Orchestra, were able to play
Wednesday afternoon.
“We could squeeze in nine holes
between rehearsals," Gnam said.
He laughingly asked if he could
be allowed entrance to play the Au
gusta National Golf Course, but
more realistically resigned himself
to saying that it is every golfer’s (as
well as his own) dream to be
granted that wish.
“I try to travel with my golf clubs
and my suitcase, rather than just
my suitcase,” he said with a grin.
Gnam said he immensely er\joys
working with student groups be
cause of the rapport he establishes
with them.
“I try to be part of the orchestra
rather than the conductor on the
podium. The more you feel like
you’re one of them, the more re
sults you get,” he said.
He also likes the response he
gets from students.
“I think they’re the most recep
tive to making improvements and
learning what it takes to make
beautiful music; their rate of pro
gress is outstanding,” he said. “You
go from one rehearsal to the next
and you have a demonstrative im-
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Adrian Gnam: At work with University Symphony in preparation for Brahms' Requiem
provement from each.”
When asked about his feelings
toward the University’s music pro
gram, he said he thinks it has alot
of potential in spite of the minimal
facilities it has.
‘1 think it’s an orchestra that’s
definitely emerging,” he said. “It
has some major problems that are
not within the musical content of
the group; the real problem that I
see here is that they just need a
concert hall.”
They need rehearsal facilities.
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dents that this program warrants,
good facilities are extremely impor
tant."
He made reference to the fact
that in three days’ time, the or
chestra was forced to rehearse in
three different places.
“It is virtually impossible to do a
good performance of a Brahms re
quiem when the first rehearsal in
the performance hall is the day be
fore the performance,” he said. “It’s
extremely discouraging, and here I
come from the outside and only
have to be here for one week. I
really feel empathy for my col
leagues and the students who have
to bear with this all year long.”
Regardless, he said that the Uni
versity has attracted the faculty
and students needed to make it a
good program.
“You have terrific faculty here,
it’s not a matter of hiring the right
faculty," he said. “But that’s not al
ways the answer. Students go
where the atmosphere is right.”
Performances for the Brahms
Reauiem are tonight and Friday
nignt at 8 D.m. Student tickets are
$2, general public tickets are $5
and are available at the Fine Arts
office and at the door. However, ad
vance purchase is advised.
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