{"id":1844,"date":"2013-12-11T22:28:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T03:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/12\/11\/award-winning-music-in-the-great-outdoors\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:29:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:29:26","slug":"award-winning-music-in-the-great-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/award-winning-music-in-the-great-outdoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning music in the great outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9403\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/inuksuit-cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9403\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9403 lazyload\" alt=\"inuksuit-cover\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/inuksuit-cover.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 240px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 240\/240;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Inuksuit&#8221; was among NPR&#8217;s favorite albums of 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman percussion professor Omar Carmenates is among the performers on a recording that has been named one of NPR Music\u2019s \u201c50 Favorite Albums Of 2013.\u201d Carmenates was one of 30-plus percussionists who gathered in the woods of Vermont to perform composer John Luther Adams\u2019 \u201cInuksuit.\u201d <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/bestmusic2013\/2013\/12\/10\/249243871\/npr-musics-50-favorite-albums-of-2013\">NPR Music<\/a><\/b> called the resulting album a \u201criveting and exhilarating\u201d experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInuksuit\u201d was also featured on the Dec. 11 segment of NPR\u2019s \u201c<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/deceptivecadence\/2013\/12\/11\/249991432\/funk-faust-and-stone-three-stunning-albums-from-2013\">All Things Considered<\/a><\/b>.\u201d\u00a0 It was one of three albums that were briefly reviewed by NPR music editor Anastasia Tsioulcas.<\/p>\n<p>Carmenates is no stranger to Adams\u2019 composition. The Furman professor was in charge when the university hosted the U.S. premiere of \u201cInuksuit\u201d in 2010, which Adams attended. Carmenates also traveled to New York City to take part in two performances of \u201cInuksuit,\u201d which was selected as one of the top 10 classical music performances by New York Magazine.\u00a0 Furman musicians will perform the piece on campus again in March 2014 and then travel to Knoxville, Tenn., the following month for another performance.<\/p>\n<p>Carmenates has been a member of the Furman music faculty since 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman percussion professor Omar Carmenates is among the performers on a recording that has been named one of NPR Music\u2019s \u201c50 Favorite Albums Of 2013.\u201d Carmenates was one of 30-plus percussionists who gathered in the woods of Vermont to perform composer John Luther Adams\u2019 \u201cInuksuit.\u201d\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/bestmusic2013\/2013\/12\/10\/249243871\/npr-musics-50-favorite-albums-of-2013\">NPR Music<\/a><\/b>\u00a0called the resulting album a \u201criveting and exhilarating\u201d experience.\u00a0Carmenates is no stranger to Adams\u2019 composition. The Furman professor was in charge when the university hosted the U.S. premiere of \u201cInuksuit\u201d in 2010, which Adams attended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}