{"id":878,"date":"2015-11-28T09:22:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T14:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/?p=878"},"modified":"2015-11-28T09:22:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T14:22:56","slug":"nu-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/2015\/11\/nu-stuff.html","title":{"rendered":"nu stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/nuensemble.uncsa.edu\">nu ensemble<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_6001-1024x681.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-879 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_6001-1024x681-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_6001-1024x681\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_6001-1024x681-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_6001-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> had a fantastic concert last Saturday night: seven pieces from the last five years, all by composers between the ages of 23 and 45. \u00a0The program:<\/p>\n<p>Ted Hearne: <em>But I Voted for Shirley Chisholm<\/em><br \/>\nDerek Arnold: <em>Cook\u2019s Wall<\/em><br \/>\nCheyne Runnells: <em>Mistakes Were Made<\/em><br \/>\nDonnacha Dennehy: <em>That the Night Come<\/em><br \/>\nCaroline Shaw: <em>Entr\u2019acte<\/em><br \/>\nDak Van Vranken: <em>Hag<\/em><br \/>\nStefan Freund: <em>The Soldier Dances With Tom Sawyer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Three of the pieces were premieres of works by our students; the rest were offerings from some of the many intriguing young voices on the contemporary music scene.\u00a0 Great opportunity for our composers to measure themselves against the best, and for our performance majors to grapple with new idioms.\u00a0 Except for the string quartet by Caroline Shaw, all the pieces were for 7-16 instruments, handily batoned by Derek Arnold, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saxtonrose.com\">Saxton Rose<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christopherlees.com\">Christopher James Lees<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our nu ensemble had a fantastic concert last Saturday night: seven pieces from the last five years, all by composers between the ages of 23 and 45. \u00a0The program: Ted Hearne: But I Voted for Shirley Chisholm Derek Arnold: Cook\u2019s Wall Cheyne Runnells: Mistakes Were Made Donnacha Dennehy: That the Night Come Caroline Shaw: Entr\u2019acte [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}