{"id":27839,"date":"2013-11-14T14:52:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T21:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=27839"},"modified":"2013-11-14T14:52:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T21:52:50","slug":"exotic-vibraphone-quintet-rounds-horizons-concert-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/exotic-vibraphone-quintet-rounds-horizons-concert-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Acclaimed quintet rounds out fall concert series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27840\" alt=\"Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/orchestrotica.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2013\/11\/orchestrotica.jpg 440w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2013\/11\/orchestrotica-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/>The fall Horizons Concert Series concludes with a performance <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052748704261504576205141448855466\">deliciously demented and entertaining<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Award-winning vibraphone quintet, Mr. Ho\u2019s Orchestrotica, performs at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, in Ashurst Hall, featuring global jazz and exotic chamber music with world-music flavors sourced from Asia, the Middle East, the Balkans and Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>Referencing the exotica of composers ranging from Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich to George Gershwin, Martin Denny and John Adams, Mr. Ho\u2019s Orchestrotica is \u201cA perfect cocktail of mid-century \u2018space age bachelor pad\u2019 music deliciously accented with chamber, jazz, classical and world music,\u201d wrote <i>The Boston Globe<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Led by multi-percussionist, vibraphonist, composer and NAU music alumnus <strong>Brian O\u2019Neill<\/strong>, the group also features Geni Skendo (<i>bass flute\/woodwinds<\/i>), Shane Shanahan (<i>percussion<\/i>), Bruno Raberg (<i>acoustic bass<\/i>) and Tev Stevig (<i>oud\/tambur\/plucked strings<\/i>). Mr. Ho\u2019s Orchestrotica was named the 2012 \u201cBest World Music Act\u201d in the <i>Boston Phoenix<\/i>\u2019s annual readers\u2019 poll. The quintet\u2019s appearance on the Horizons Concert Series coincides with the release of its second album, <i>Where Here Meets There<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Individual tickets for the Horizons Concert Series are $20 for adults, $12.50 for seniors and NAU faculty and staff, and free for children ages 17 and younger and NAU students with an ID. For tickets to all events, call (928) 523-5661, toll free (888) 520-7214, or purchase online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nau.ticketforce.com\/eventperformances.asp?evt=291\">nau.edu\/cto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The College of Arts and Letters has provided free parking in Lot P3\u00a0for the Horizons Concert Series. Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/maps\/\">nau.edu\/maps<\/a>\u00a0for directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/exotic-vibraphone-quintet-rounds-horizons-concert-series\/\">The fall Horizons Concert Series concludes with a performance The Wall Street Journal called \u201cdeliciously demented and entertaining.\u201d Award-winning vibraphone quintet, Mr. Ho\u2019s Orchestrotica, performs at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, in Ashurst Hall, featuring global jazz and exotic chamber music with world-music flavors sourced from Asia, the Middle East, the Balkans and Latin America.&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":27840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}