{"id":147,"date":"2012-02-26T12:42:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T17:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2012-04-09T12:17:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T16:17:35","slug":"premiere-of-san-marco-for-trumpet-and-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/premiere-of-san-marco-for-trumpet-and-electronics\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiere of &#8220;San Marco&#8221; for trumpet and electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>San Marco <\/em><\/strong>*PREMIERE*<em><\/em><strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em>Sunday, April 1, 8:00pm<br \/>\n<\/strong>Performed by <strong>Ezra Weller,<\/strong> trumpet and electronics<br \/>\nPierce Hall at\u00a0New England Conservatory<br \/>\n241 St. Botolph St,\u00a0Boston MA.<br \/>\nFree admission.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_148\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-148 \" title=\"Renoir, Piazza San Marco Venice\" src=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/renoir-piazza-san-marco-venice-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Renoir, Piazza San Marco Venice\" width=\"240\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/renoir-piazza-san-marco-venice-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/renoir-piazza-san-marco-venice.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A painting of San Marco by Auguste Renoir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This piece combines live trumpet with digital processing and\u00a0playback of pre-recorded samples controlled by the performer.\u00a0This premiere performance is being featured on a recital of electro-acoustic music by students of composer\u00a0<strong>John Mallia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>My goal with <em>San Marco<\/em> is to create a fluid, ambient atmosphere evoking the sound-world and spirit of the sacred instrumental music of the late Renaissance\/early Baroque, especially Monteverdi (who I sample in the piece). The famous cathedral in Venice,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_Mark%27s_Basilica\" target=\"_blank\">Basilica of St. Mark&#8217;s (Basilica Cattedrale Patriarcale di San Marco)<\/a>, was a center for this music and the inspiration for my title,\u00a0<em>San Marco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The piece features truncated, looped, and processed samples of late Renaissance music for voice and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cornett\" target=\"_blank\">cornetto<\/a>, a wind instrument with a sound not unlike a trumpet (although its construction is very different). The cornetto was highly regarded in the 16th and early 17th centuries for its similarity to the human voice, and has a delicate sound I find incredibly beautiful. The modern trumpet plays along with and around the samples, alternately imitating, dominating, and being dominated by the sound of the cornetto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Marco *PREMIERE* Sunday, April 1, 8:00pm Performed by Ezra Weller, trumpet and electronics Pierce Hall at\u00a0New England Conservatory 241 St. Botolph St,\u00a0Boston MA. Free admission. This piece combines live trumpet with digital processing and\u00a0playback of pre-recorded samples controlled by the performer.\u00a0This premiere performance is being featured on a recital of electro-acoustic music by students &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/premiere-of-san-marco-for-trumpet-and-electronics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Premiere of &#8220;San Marco&#8221; for trumpet and electronics&#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":[28],"tags":[23,53],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performances","tag-concerts-and-events","tag-electro-acoustic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","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=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}