{"id":7063,"date":"2020-07-19T22:28:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T22:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=7063"},"modified":"2020-07-20T22:31:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T22:31:35","slug":"joshua-roman-announced-as-artist-in-residence-for-the-las-vegas-philharmonics-new-arts-impact-residency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/joshua-roman-announced-as-artist-in-residence-for-the-las-vegas-philharmonics-new-arts-impact-residency\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Roman announced as artist-in-residence for the Las Vegas Philharmonic’s new Arts & Impact Residency"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/a><\/p>\n

By Janna Karel<\/p>\n

More than a year ago, the Las Vegas Philharmonic began brainstorming an artist in residency program that would take live performance out of the concert hall and into shopping centers, medical offices and parking lots.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

While the concept was still in its infancy, Huszcza reached out to world-class cellist and TED Fellow Joshua Roman about being a part of the multiyear Arts and Impact Residency.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoshua was the first person who came to mind,\u201d says Huszcza. \u201cHe has an incredibly wide worldview and in-depth perspective and a unique ability to talk about music and bring it out of the concert hall and into life in powerful, exciting ways. We went to him with this vague concept and let him help us imagine what the program could be.\u201d<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Roman\u2019s efforts to bring music into more accessible spaces has led to him performing in schools, at HIV and AIDS centers and, in 2006, at Ugandan refugee camps.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of these people in the camp were experiencing incredible, desolate poverty, and had no classical musical training,\u201d remembers Roman. \u201cBut they laughed at Mozart\u2019s jokes. They got it. They had no expectations and they paid attention. I mean, I read that Mozart was a prankster in his music, but I never actually listened to it. I don\u2019t like the notion that you can\u2019t appreciate a great piece of art just because you haven\u2019t studied the form.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now that The Smith Center is closed, possibly until a vaccine becomes available, the Las Vegas Philharmonic is in need of alternative venues in which musicians can perform.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re brainstorming about different places like Container Park or the little stage at Fergusons Downtown. Having music in different spaces changes your relationship to the space and the music in really fresh and exciting ways,\u201d says Huszcza. \u201cBut it\u2019s hard to think out of the box that you\u2019ve been in for so long. It helps to partner with artists who have already broken out of that box.\u201d<\/p>\n

The idea is not to replicate The Smith Center in other settings, but rather to complement the traditional concert in spaces that reframe how the music is experienced.<\/p>\n

Roman is slated to make the first appearance of his three-year residency on Oct. 16, at the season opener, a concert that is made tentative by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think people are really going to hunger for that live, in-person experience. I miss it for sure,\u201d says Roman. \u201cAnd rather than just waiting for it to happen and hitting pause, let\u2019s spend some time reflecting on what makes it great. While we can\u2019t do that kind of performance, how else can we connect?\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Las Vegas Review-Journal By Janna Karel More than a year ago, the Las Vegas Philharmonic began brainstorming an artist in residency program that would take live performance out of the concert hall and into shopping centers, medical offices and parking lots. … While the concept was still in its infancy, Huszcza reached out … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3633,4010,3686,3734],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7064,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions\/7064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}