{"id":10727,"date":"2018-11-27T14:14:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T22:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=10727"},"modified":"2019-10-29T15:15:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T22:15:01","slug":"recent-listening-harry-vetros-northern-ranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/11\/recent-listening-harry-vetros-northern-ranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Listening: Harry Vetro&#8217;s Northern Ranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Listening: Harry Vetro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/contact@harryvetro.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Northern Ranger<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/vetro-e1543356612328.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/vetro-e1543356612328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a>A generation of Canadian musicians is coming to prominence in their youth and making substantial impressions. One is drummer Harry Vetro. After he was graduated from the University of Toronto Jazz Program, the 23-year-old spent much of last year exploring his country as it celebrated its 150th year of nationhood. He visited what he calls Canada\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s six indigenous cultural areas\u00e2\u20ac\u201dArctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, Plateau, Plains and Eastern Woodlands. He gathered impressions of his native land and converted them to music, then assembled thirteen other young artists to help interpret his ideas. The directness of Vetro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s writing has much to do with the music\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s effectiveness, and so do the talents of its players.<\/p>\n<p>Pianist Andrew Downing begins the title composition, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Northern Ranger: Air Borealis.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d then we hear Vetro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cymbals and drums, Lina Allemano\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trumpet, and the string section composed of violinists Jessica Deutsch and Aline Homzy, violist Anna Atkinson and bassist Phil Albert.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/61hIoiaGnNI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Vetro has announced that proceeds from <em>Northern Ranger<\/em> will go toward a program called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Northern Ranger Outreach\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to help young people who need assistance with their musical education. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a nice bit of giving back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Listening: Harry Vetro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Northern Ranger A generation of Canadian musicians is coming to prominence in their youth and making substantial impressions. One is drummer Harry Vetro. After he was graduated from the University of Toronto Jazz Program, the 23-year-old spent much of last year exploring his country as it celebrated its 150th year of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10728,"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":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"category-recommendations","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}