{"id":2537,"date":"2015-08-26T12:25:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T19:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2015-09-09T11:18:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T18:18:05","slug":"house-of-cards-and-monk-composer-jeff-beal-premieres-new-work-for-guitar-and-string-quartet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/house-of-cards-and-monk-composer-jeff-beal-premieres-new-work-for-guitar-and-string-quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018House of Cards\u2019 and \u2018Monk\u2019 Composer Jeff Beal Premieres New Work for Guitar and String Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sideleft-view1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2538 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sideleft-view1-300x169.jpg?resize=300%2C169\" alt=\"sideleft%20view[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sideleft-view1.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sideleft-view1.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sideleft-view1.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffbeal.com\/\">Jeff Beal<\/a><\/strong>, an award-winning composer that has scored music for <em>House of Cards<\/em>, <em>Blackfish<\/em>, and <em>Monk<\/em>, will premiere his latest work <em>Six Sixteen<\/em>\u2014for guitar and a string quartet\u2014at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chambermusiclex.com\/\">Chamber Music Festival of Lexington<\/a><\/strong> in Kentucky on August 28.<\/p>\n<p>The fest welcomes classical guitarist <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/grammy-winner-jason-vieaux-is-always-looking-for-new-challenges\/\">Jason Vieaux<\/a><\/strong><strong>, <\/strong>who graced <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/classicalguitar.myshopify.com\/collections\/featured-products\/products\/no-378-summer-2015\">the cover of CG\u2019s Summer issue<\/a><\/strong>, as the inaugural David P. Reynolds Visiting Artist. Beal says he kept Vieaux in mind while composing <em>Six Sixteen<\/em>\u2014a piece he says that\u00a0he named for the number of strings being played: six on the guitar and 16 by the quartet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first thing you think is, \u2018I don&#8217;t have to limit myself,\u2019\u201d Beal told <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/2015\/08\/26\/4006070_every-note-tells-a-story-for-house.html?rh=1\">Kentucky.com<\/a><\/strong> over the phone from his home in Southern California. \u201cWhen you have world-class musicians, you want to play with that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusic is storytelling,\u201d he added, \u201cand having worked in film has really honed my skills at storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The festival runs from August 26-30. To view the full schedule and its programming, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chambermusiclex.com\/events\/\">click here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Beal, an award-winning composer that has scored music for House of Cards, Blackfish, and Monk, will premiere his latest work Six Sixteen\u2014for guitar and a string quartet\u2014at the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington in Kentucky on August 28. The fest welcomes classical guitarist Jason Vieaux, who graced the cover of CG\u2019s Summer issue, as the inaugural David P. Reynolds Visiting Artist. Beal says he kept Vieaux in mind while composing Six Sixteen\u2014a piece he says that\u00a0he named for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sideleft-view1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}