{"id":154,"date":"2012-04-02T14:23:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T18:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2012-04-09T12:16:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T16:16:39","slug":"premiere-of-sextet-in-jordan-hall-my-last-tuesday-night-new-music-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/premiere-of-sextet-in-jordan-hall-my-last-tuesday-night-new-music-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiere of &#8220;Sextet&#8221; in Jordan Hall &#8211; my last Tuesday Night New Music concert!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Monday, April 23, 8:00pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>Sextet<\/strong><\/em> *PREMIERE*<br \/>\nPerformed by <strong>Zachary Boeding<\/strong>, oboe,<strong>\u00a0Andrew Thompson<\/strong>, bassoon,<strong>\u00a0Gregor Kaelin<\/strong>, trumpet, <strong>Amy Kao<\/strong>, harpsichord, <strong>Lisa Goddard<\/strong>, violin, and\u00a0<strong>Elizabeth Oka<\/strong>, viola.<br \/>\nJordan Hall, New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston MA. Free admission.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sextet<\/em>\u00a0for oboe, bassoon, trumpet, harpsichord, violin, and viola is a love letter to\u00a0the textures and sound world of Baroque music (a subject I explored in a very different way with my recent piece for trumpet and electronics,\u00a0<em>San Marco<\/em>). Although references to historical style are not continuous throughout this piece, Baroque music influenced my choice of instrumentation and certain compositional devices I utilized: hence the movement titles\u00a0<em>Canon, Ritornello,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Passacaglia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This piece is also infused with a feeling for syncopation, groove, melody, harmony, and soloistic playing&#8212;as well as the sense of being taken on a journey through music&#8212;inherited from my favorite 1970s progressive rock bands such as Yes and Gentle Giant and contemporary indie band The Flaming Lips: hence the movement title\u00a0<em>Groove<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For this performance,\u00a0<em>Sextet<\/em>\u00a0is also a fond goodbye to my time as an undergraduate at New England Conservatory: this marks the 20th and final performance of my music on a Tuesday Night New Music concert, and the 28th performance of my music in Boston and at NEC since arriving here in the fall of 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, April 23, 8:00pm Sextet *PREMIERE* Performed by Zachary Boeding, oboe,\u00a0Andrew Thompson, bassoon,\u00a0Gregor Kaelin, trumpet, Amy Kao, harpsichord, Lisa Goddard, violin, and\u00a0Elizabeth Oka, viola. Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston MA. Free admission. Sextet\u00a0for oboe, bassoon, trumpet, harpsichord, violin, and viola is a love letter to\u00a0the textures and sound world of Baroque &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/premiere-of-sextet-in-jordan-hall-my-last-tuesday-night-new-music-concert\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Premiere of &#8220;Sextet&#8221; in Jordan Hall &#8211; my last Tuesday Night New Music concert!&#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],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performances","tag-concerts-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","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=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}