{"id":426,"date":"2012-01-25T19:24:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T19:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/photos\/?p=426"},"modified":"2019-08-28T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T00:46:07","slug":"vikings-of-the-sunrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/vikings-of-the-sunrise\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings of the Sunrise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]The University of Hawaii Contemporary Music Ensemble, a group I direct, is taking on a unique piece this Spring. <strong>Stephen Scott<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Vikings of the Sunrise<\/em> is a piece written for an ensemble of 10 performers, all playing a single piano. But most of this piece isn&#8217;t played on the keys. Instead, the ensemble plays directly on the strings by striking them with piano hammers, plucking with guitar picks and &#8211; perhaps most notably &#8211; bowing the strings with rosined fishing line.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re all excited to be performing the first part of this piece here in Hawaii, especially since it&#8217;s a work that directly connects to this place (the subtitle of the piece is &#8220;Fantasy on the Polynesian Star Navigators&#8221;). For the past few weeks, the ensemble has been working to prepare the piano by placing bows on the strings, labeling strings, and constructing &#8220;bow traps&#8221; (devices that keep the bows from tangling when not in use). It&#8217;s been a great adventure for us so far, and we&#8217;re looking forward to working with the composer himself in preparation for the concert in April.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some photos of the preparations in progress:<\/p>\n<p>(Updated: I&#8217;ve also included some photos from the concert)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_gallery el_id=&#8221;gallery-128569&#8243; medias=&#8221;428,429,430,431,432,433,434,435,436,437,438,439,440,441,442&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; screen_lg=&#8221;1000&#8243; screen_md=&#8221;600&#8243; screen_sm=&#8221;480&#8243; single_overlay_opacity=&#8221;50&#8243; single_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; single_border=&#8221;yes&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]The University of Hawaii Contemporary Music Ensemble, a group I direct, is taking on a unique piece this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81994,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/81994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}