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P. Kellach Waddle and the musicians of PKWproductions present one of the most applauded films of all time, Gone with the Wind, with live music as the last “Music and a Movie” performance of the year on Sunday, Dec. 6 at Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek for a 3 p.m. matinee show.

Civil War era romance sets the theme as this 1939 Hollywood classic is paired with two live concerts before the movie and at intermission, inspired by Victor Fleming’s original film. This end of the year concert will capture the feisty attitude of a spoiled southern bell with the world premiere of new solo bass work on the psychology of Scarlett O' Hara composed and performed by P. Kellach Waddle himself.

Director and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee P. Kellach Waddle will also revisit the popular and often-requested favorites including: String Quintet #3 entitled "The Burning of Atlanta”, and string arrangements in the opening music, “Tara's Theme” and "Ashokan Farewell" from Ken Burns' "The Civil War."

After last year’s production sold-out, “Music and a Movie” performance of Gone with the Wind, PKWproductions offers a unique experience with a live chamber concert with a film that has become known as one of the greatest movies of all time and in a setting Entertainment Weekly calls “The Best Theatre in America,” the Alamo Drafthouse.

ABOUT GONE WITH THE WIND, 1939 DIR. VICTOR FLEMING

The 1939 classic takes place in Georgia on the eve of the American Civil War. The highly sought after Scarlett O’Hara pines for a man that does not return her love, Ashley Wilkes, who is already engaged. By war’s end Scarlett’s plantation in Georgia, Tara, is pillaged and untended. In an attempt to salvage her family’s plantation Scarlett first agrees to marry a successful general store owner, and immediately following his death, reluctantly marries the handsome, yet roguish and persistent Rhett Butler. Scarlett continues to long for Ashley Wilkes until the day his wife passes away, the day which she realizes that Ashley has never cared for her in the manner she had hoped for. She then realizes that she cares for and needs Rhett, not knowing that Rhett had already decided to leave her. After contemplation and recollection, Scarlett decides to return to Tara and attempt to win back Rhett’s love. The movie's famous action continues from the burning of Atlanta through the now-classic closing line, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

ABOUT P. KELLACH WADDLE

P. Kellach Waddle enjoys a busy career of growing renown as a composer, bassist and writer. As an Austin-based composer, he now has three Pulitzer Prize nominations to his credit for concertos he has written for members of the Cleveland Orchestra and most recently for his String Quintet #5 inspired by the writings of Kurt Vonnegut. Recently his String Quartet #2 commissioned by the Miro Quartet won the 2008 Austin Critic's Table award for Outstanding Original Composition. With a catalogue approaching 325 works and a list of performances approaching 600, he continues to be one of the most prolific and most performed composers of his generation. His music has been featured on NPR and among other radio stations in nearly 40 states and 10 countries on 4 continents.

Along with P. Kellach Waddle's busy work as an orchestral and chamber music performer (including his role as a member of The Austin Symphony since 1992), he is one of the few dozen bassists in the world with management as a solo artist. In this capacity, he has performed more than 130 solo recitals and at least a dozen performances with orchestras as a concerto soloist.

Upcoming premieres of his music for 2009 include a string quartet for The Marian Anderson String Quartet among more than 50 more chamber works for trios, quartets, quintets and duos. The Balcones Chamber Orchestra and the orchestra of St. Stephen's Episcopal School will also perform orchestral works by Mr. Waddle in the coming season. One of the two remaining music events in that list, the premiere of Graham Reynolds' cantata "The Odyssey," featured P. Kellach Waddle on bass. Other notable premieres for the 2009 calendar year include  multiple works for Austin Symphony concertmaster Jessica Mathaes following the success of her solo debut in Dec. 2007 (including a trio for Mrs. Mathaes and famed Houston violist Lawrence Wheeler), a wealth of church pieces to be premiered at Hyde Park Methodist Church (where he was appointed Composer-Artist in Residence in Spring 2007), a solo cello piece for Austin Symphony Principal Cello Douglas Harvey in late 2009, other bass music to be premiered by Jessica Gilliam-Valls throughout 2009  ,eight new pieces for Cello and Bass duet for the 2009-10 season, and six new works to be premiered throughout the fall on PKWproductions'  " Synthesis of Music and Literature Series" including pieces based on "Catcher In The  Rye" and "Frankenstein." Recent major premieres include over a dozen other pieces inspired by literature with over a dozen more coming in the 2009 calendar year, as well as a Clarinet and Piano Sonata, a solo clarinet work, and another Clarinet/Violin and Piano work that were premiered in Stockholm, Sweden in late 2008 as well as Waddle's other recently hailed work for this instrumentation by The Austin Chamber Ensemble/Trio Contaste in spring 2009.

While Waddle's output still mainly is in the realm of chamber music,  his piece for string orchestra, "The Temperature In The Forlorn Cathedral" was recently premiered in Ontario  Canada, marking the first of five orchestral premieres in the next 14 months, including a Symphony based on the music of the Beatles and of U2 that will be premiered by the Austin Pops Orchestra in November 2009.

Following up on Waddle's writing for "unusual" mediums, such as his widely publicized pieces for massed tubas/euphoniums and organ for the University of Texas carillon (bell tower) in May 2007 and a piece for (19-piece) Contrabassoon Choir in the summer of 2007, Waddle will have a piece for massed trombones and organ premiered in 2009. Other works to be premiered outside of Austin during the 2009-10 season. include five pieces for organ in Boston, Mass., and sonatas for solo contrabassoon, solo oboe d'amore, and violin and bassoon as well as over a dozen new works for bass (including trios for bass/bassoon/piano and bass/contrabassoon/piano in New York City). Over 80 recordings of PKW's pieces, from solo works to all three of his major Pulitzer prize-nominated orchestral works, can now be heard by entering "P. Kellach Waddle" at www.classicallounge.com.