{"id":7122,"date":"2013-10-19T08:12:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T13:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=7122"},"modified":"2017-11-27T11:56:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:56:43","slug":"interpreter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=7122","title":{"rendered":"Interpreter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7123\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7123\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7123\" title=\"Composer and Violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain at CFAC\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cfac-roumain2.jpg\" alt=\"Composer and Violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain at CFAC\" width=\"580\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cfac-roumain2.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cfac-roumain2-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain at CFAC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t have to be a fan of classical music or chamber music to enjoy the performance by Haitian-American composer violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain last night.\u00a0 His goal since age 5 has been to make the violin cool so it can be real; make it real so it can be relevant; and be relevant so he can build relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Last night he made some new fans (from elementary school age to the upper decades) by interpreting everything from classic pieces, hip hop music, the national anthem of two countries and even the paintings on the gallery walls.<\/p>\n<p>Roumain has worked with Luther Campbell, Bill T. Jones, Paul Miller (DJ Spooky) and many more.<\/p>\n<p>His\u00a0 performance was part of the on-going series at the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) exploring the music of the African Diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for an\u00a0interview with Roumain, which\u00a0will be published soon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7128\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7128\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7128\" title=\"Yayoi Ikawa, Anthony McGriff, Dr. Kheli Willetts, Daniel Bernard Roumain and Eric McGriff at CFAC on Friday night.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cfac-group-roumain.jpg\" alt=\"Yayoi Ikawa, Anthony McGriff, Dr. Kheli Willetts, Daniel Bernard Roumain and Eric McGriff at CFAC on Friday night.\" width=\"508\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cfac-group-roumain.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cfac-group-roumain-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yayoi Ikawa, Anthony McGriff, Dr. Kheli Willetts, Daniel Bernard Roumain and Eric McGriff after last night&#8217;s performance.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You didn&#8217;t have to be a fan of classical music or chamber music to enjoy the performance by Haitian-American composer violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain last night.\u00a0 His goal since age 5 has been to make the violin cool so it can be real; make it real so it can be relevant; and be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[2524,573,861,3315,3314,3209,1868,3316,2691,4999,280],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7122"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22482,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions\/22482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}