{"id":60852,"date":"2013-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-to-host-13th-annual-percussive-arts-festival-march-9\/"},"modified":"2013-02-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T00:00:00","slug":"uri-to-host-13th-annual-percussive-arts-festival-march-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2013\/02\/uri-to-host-13th-annual-percussive-arts-festival-march-9\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 to host 13th annual Percussive Arts Festival, March 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 22, 2013 \u2013 If a lively roll of drums or the rhythmic plink of a marimba gets you going, you should pencil in the afternoon of Saturday, March 9, when the 溏心vlog免费B站 will host the RI Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society&#8217;s 13th annual Percussion Festival in the 溏心vlog免费B站 Fine Arts Center Concert Hall, 105 Upper College Road, Kingston.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe festival, which runs from 1-5 p.m., includes percussion ensemble performances open to middle school and high school ensembles from RI, MA, and CT competing before a panel of judges. The day will also feature guest artist Keith Aleo, who will provide an instructional performance\/clinic following the presentation of awards at the end of the afternoon. The public is invited to sit in for free.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAleo is a member of the New Bedford and Indian Hill Symphony Orchestras (Massachusetts) in addition to teaching percussion at 溏心vlog免费B站. His chamber music and solo accomplishments include the Florida Philharmonic, the Miami Chamber Symphony, the New Percussion Quartet, Ensemble 21, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and many solo recitals. He has also recorded several orchestral works on the Harmonia Mundi, Spectrum and Word Records labels. He has given master classes and percussion workshops at numerous universities and at both state and international percussion conventions, including the Percussive Arts Society (PAS) International Convention in Nashville. Formerly a faculty member at the University of Miami and director of percussion studies at Florida International University, he holds a B.M. from the Eastman School of Music and his M.M. from the University of Miami.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Percussive Arts Society (PAS\u00ae) is a non-profit service organization. Its purpose is educational, promoting drums and percussion through a network of performers, teachers, students, enthusiasts and sustaining members. PAS accomplishes its goals through publications, a worldwide network of chapters, the PAS website, the Percussive Arts Society International Headquarters\/Museum and the annual Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC\u00ae).<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe 溏心vlog免费B站 Concert Hall is handicap-accessible, and parking is available in the lot behind the Fine Arts Center, off Bills Road. For more information, please contact the 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Music, 874-2431, or check the website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uri.edu\/music\">www.uri.edu\/music<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 22, 2013 \u2013 If a lively roll of drums or the rhythmic plink of a marimba gets you going, you should pencil in the afternoon of Saturday, March 9, when the 溏心vlog免费B站 will host the RI Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society&#8217;s 13th annual Percussion Festival in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}