{"id":40802195464,"date":"2018-07-25T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/event\/turtle-island-string-quartet\/"},"modified":"2018-07-25T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:45:00","slug":"turtle-island-string-quartet","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/event\/turtle-island-string-quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"Turtle Island String Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winner of the 2006 and 2008 GRAMMY\u00ae Awards for Best Classical Crossover category, Turtle Island fuses the classical quartet esthetic with contemporary American musical styles. For a quarter century, the Turtle Island Quartet has delved into folk, bluegrass, swing, be-bop, funk, R&amp;B, new age, rock, hip-hop, as well as music of Latin America and India \u2026a repertoire consisting of hundreds of ingenious arrangements and originals. Formed in 1985, the Turtle Island Quartet has been a singular force in<br \/>\nthe creation of bold, new trends in chamber music for strings. <\/p>\n<p>In this concert Turtle Island Quartet presents Birth of the Cool\u2014celebrating what became known as \u201cCool Jazz,\u201d marked by the embodiment of cool, Miles Davis, along with his colleagues Gil Evans and Gerry Mulligan, as well as the Modern Jazz Quartet and Dave Brubeck. In addition to their masterful jazz string quartet interpretations from the Birth of the Cool recording, Turtle Island offers a program of perennial favorites such as Dave Brubeck\u2019s Blue Rondo A La Turk, Gerry Mulligan\u2019s Bernie\u2019s Tune, Miles Davis\u2019s dreamy Miles Ahead, and the Modern Jazz Quartet\u2019s darker Django.<\/p>\n<p><span>For more information on the Turtle Island Quartet,<br \/>\nplease visit <a title=\"www.turtleislandquartet.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.turtleislandquartet.com\">www.turtleislandquartet.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winner of the 2006 and 2008 GRAMMY\u00ae Awards for Best Classical Crossover category, Turtle Island fuses the classical quartet esthetic with contemporary American musical styles, and by devising a performance practice that honors both, the state of the art has inevitably been redefined. Cellist nonpareil Yo-Yo Ma has proclaimed TIQ to be \u201ca unified voice that truly breaks new ground \u2013 authentic and passionate \u2013 a reflection of some of the most creative music-making today.\u201d Formed in 1985, the Turtle Island Quartet has been a singular force in the creation of bold, new trends in chamber music for strings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":40802225991,"template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"America\/New_York","_EventStartDate":"2015-02-26 20:00:00","_EventEndDate":"2015-02-26 23:00:00","_EventStartDateUTC":"2015-02-27 01:00:00","_EventEndDateUTC":"2015-02-27 04:00:00","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"$25, $35","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[6],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artseries":[],"arts":[],"tribe_events_cat":[6],"class_list":["post-40802195464","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-concerts","cat_concerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/40802195464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/40802195464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802225991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802195464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802195464"},{"taxonomy":"artseries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artseries?post=40802195464"},{"taxonomy":"arts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/arts?post=40802195464"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=40802195464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}