{"id":40802206970,"date":"2016-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/ethel-performs-at-monmouth-university\/"},"modified":"2016-02-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T05:00:00","slug":"ethel-performs-at-monmouth-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/ethel-performs-at-monmouth-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethel\u2019s Waters: Modern string ensemble meets Native American music master at Monmouth U"},"content":{"rendered":"

WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ<\/strong> \u2013 As part of its 10th Anniversary schedule of events, The Center for the Arts at Monmouth University has announced that tickets are on sale for a March 4 concert featuring the string quartet ETHEL and special guest, Native American \u201cRenaissance Man\u201d Robert Mirabal.<\/p>\n

Part of the 2016 Winter-Spring Performing Arts Series, the 8 p.m. show finds one of the most energizing ensembles in modern music returning to the Monmouth campus for the first time since a 2014 collaboration with Kaki King. They\u2019ll also be performing for the first time in the recently renovated Pollak Theatre. Complete with new seating and an enhanced stage area, it\u2019s a setting that promises to transport the audience to a place that\u2019s as steeped in tradition as the ancient high desert of the American Southwest \u2014 and as contemporary as the most state-of-the-art performance space.<\/p>\n

Joining the quartet in their \u201cquest for a common creative expression forged in the celebration of community\u201d will be Mirabal, a three-time Grammy\u00ae winner and globe-trotting musical ambassador. It\u2019s a coastal New Jersey debut for the Taos, NM-based master musician, maker of instruments, storyteller (composer, painter, poet, actor, screenwriter, horseman and farmer) whose previous projects with ETHEL were highlighted by \u201cMusic of the Sun.\u201d This time out, the inspiration is Water \u2014 its function as the embodiment of Spirit, and its crucial role in Life on Earth. Composed by Mirabal and the members of ETHEL, and augmenting the strings with traditional Native American flutes (Tdoop-Pootse) and drums (Mooloo), the music flows like an ecstatic river of ritual, history and mystery; bridged by Mirabal\u2019s narration and the quartet\u2019s contemporary artistry.<\/p>\n

Surrounding the storyteller is a group of self-described \u201cpollinators\u201d that has made collaboration its calling card since 1998. In just the past few years, ETHEL \u2014 founding members Ralph Farris (viola) and Dorothy Lawson (cello), plus violinists Kip Jones and Corin Lee \u2014 has premiered more than 50 new works by contemporary composers, from luminaries like Philip Glass and John Zorn, to the students of the Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project, the vehicle by which the quartet first worked with Mirabal. Equally at home in the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s Balcony Bar and the Grand Canyon Music Festival, the NYC-based quartet has brought its \u201ccollaborative discoveries\u201d and \u201cmulti-dimensional repertoire\u201d to diverse audiences, through partnerships with David Byrne, Todd Rundgren, Kurt Elling, Joe Jackson, ukulele ace Jake Shimabukoro, and many others.<\/p>\n

In addition to the original music composed by ETHEL and Mirabal, the program also features a segment of Gabriela Lena Frank’s epic \u201cAndean Walkabout,\u201d as well as Phil Kline\u2019s \u201cThe River,\u201d an acclaimed piece that the collaborators have performed together for audiences across North America. Like the waterways that bring life and discovery to far-flung places, it\u2019s an evening of music that explores connections between world cultures, and that touches something elemental in all who experience it.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the March 4 concert by ETHEL featuring Robert Mirabal are priced at $28 and $38 (with a Gold Circle seating option available for $50), and can be reserved through the Monmouth University Performing Arts Box Office at 732-263-6889, or online at www.monmouth.edu\/arts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tickets for other upcoming Performing Arts events \u2014 including fingerstyle guitarist Laurence Juber at Wilson Hall (April 1), and Borealis Wind Quintet (April 10) \u2014 are also on sale now.<\/p>\n

To schedule interviews, please contact Kelly Barratt at 732-263-5114.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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