{"id":119,"date":"2011-07-20T21:08:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T01:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2011-07-20T21:24:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T01:24:03","slug":"beyond-the-notes-the-course-of-empire-is-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/beyond-the-notes-the-course-of-empire-is-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Notes: The Course of Empire is launched!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Well, it&#8217;s finally here!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Beyond the Notes<\/strong><\/em> presents&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120 alignnone\" title=\"The Course of Empire\" src=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/title.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/title.gif 333w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/title-300x28.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/beyondthenotes.org\/empire\" target=\"_blank\">enter website<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/beyondthenotes.org\/empire\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/beyondthenotes.org\/empire\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/beyondthenotes.org\/empire\/m.index.html\" target=\"_blank\">enter mobile website<\/a> *<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beyond the Notes: The Course of Empire<\/strong> is an in-depth multimedia exploration of 19th century American painter Thomas Cole&#8217;s suite of five paintings <em>The Course of Empire<\/em>, and the string quartet I composed in response to the paintings. The site includes\u00a0more than twenty documentary videos illuminating Cole&#8217;s paintings, my music, and the connections between them.<\/p>\n<p>The website is meant to be freely enjoyed by anyone, whether or not you&#8217;re familiar with Cole&#8217;s paintings or my string quartet, but it was created specially to serve as a companion (a &#8220;digital program note&#8221;) for audiences of the live performance of <em>The Course of Empire<\/em> at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pem.org\" target=\"_blank\">Peabody Essex Museum<\/a><\/strong> in Salem, MA on July 30, 2011, and an additional performance of the piece on an upcoming concert of my music inspired by visual art at New England Conservatory in fall 2011.<\/p>\n<p><em>* The mobile website is optimized for iPhone and Android, and will work smoothly on most mobile phones. Users may experience problems viewing the website on iPad. If you experience technical glitches on any other device, please <a href=\"mailto:nell@beyondthenotes.org\" target=\"_blank\">let me know<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/350px-Cole_Thomas_The_Consummation_The_Course_of_the_Empire_1836.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-122\" title=\"The Consummation of Empire\" src=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/350px-Cole_Thomas_The_Consummation_The_Course_of_the_Empire_1836-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The Consummation of Empire\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/350px-Cole_Thomas_The_Consummation_The_Course_of_the_Empire_1836-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/350px-Cole_Thomas_The_Consummation_The_Course_of_the_Empire_1836.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>For more information about the concert, the string quartet, and Beyond the Notes, please check out these relevant blog posts:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/?p=113\">July 9<br \/>\nAnnouncement of Peabody Essex Museum concert, with an overview of Beyond the Notes.<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/?p=103\"><br \/>\nMay 30<br \/>\nBehind the scenes exploring and filming in the Hudson River Valley, Cole&#8217;s former home.<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/?p=93\"><br \/>\nMay 25<br \/>\nAn introduction to Beyond the Notes.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s finally here! Beyond the Notes presents&#8230; enter website enter mobile website * Beyond the Notes: The Course of Empire is an in-depth multimedia exploration of 19th century American painter Thomas Cole&#8217;s suite of five paintings The Course of Empire, and the string quartet I composed in response to the paintings. The site includes\u00a0more &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/beyond-the-notes-the-course-of-empire-is-launched\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beyond the Notes: The Course of Empire is launched!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,38],"tags":[81,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-music","category-beyond-the-notes","tag-art-and-music","tag-beyond-the-notes-2","tag-peabody-essex-museum","tag-thomas-cole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}