{"id":925,"date":"2012-11-12T19:16:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T00:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/11\/12\/furman-percussion-ensemble-and-special-guests-present-concert-on-nov-19\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:15:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:15:59","slug":"furman-percussion-ensemble-and-special-guests-present-concert-on-nov-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-percussion-ensemble-and-special-guests-present-concert-on-nov-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman Percussion Ensemble and special guests present concert Nov. 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOVEMBER 12, 2012<br \/>\nby Tina Underwood, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p>The Furman Percussion Ensemble will present a concert Monday, Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. in Daniel Recital Hall on campus.<\/p>\n<p>The concert is open to the public. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Furman faculty members Omar Carmenates and John Beckford, the Furman Percussion Ensemble will perform a wide range of music from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The concert opens with a musical celebration marking the 100<sup>th <\/sup>birthday of renowned composer and artist John Cage. Following the tribute, the Furman Percussion Ensemble will perform an arrangement of \u201cOctet\u201d by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steve Reich.<\/p>\n<p>To close the concert, the Furman Percussion Ensemble welcomes special guests Andrew and Julie Moore (of Greenville), and Guinean master drummer Bolokada Conde in an <em>en masse<\/em> performance of traditional drumming and dance styles of West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the event, contact the Furman University Music Department at 864-294-2086, or <a href=\"mailto:FurmanMusic@furman.edu\">FurmanMusic@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOVEMBER 12, 2012<br \/>\nby Tina Underwood, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p>The Furman Percussion Ensemble will present a concert Monday, Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. in Daniel Recital Hall on campus.\u00a0The concert is open to the public. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students.\u00a0Led by Furman faculty members Omar Carmenates and John Beckford, the Furman Percussion Ensemble will perform a wide range of music from around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","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=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}