{"id":307,"date":"2017-03-15T18:20:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T22:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2017-03-26T18:22:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T22:22:21","slug":"nell-is-named-finalist-for-houston-grand-opera-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/nell-is-named-finalist-for-houston-grand-opera-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Nell is named finalist for Houston Grand Opera commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a huge honor to have been selected by the <strong>Houston Grand Opera<\/strong> as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstongrandopera.org\/community-programs\/hgoco-event\/composer-call\/\" target=\"_blank\">one of eleven finalists<\/a> for the\u00a02017\u00a0<em>Song of Houston<\/em> Composer Call!<\/p>\n<p>The nationally recognized <em>Song of Houston<\/em> initiative commissions new chamber operas and song projects that resonate with contemporary life in Houston and develops community projects that foster collaborations with many Houston-area organizations. Previously commissioned composers include Christopher Theofanidis, Gregory Spears, David Hanlon, and Laura Kaminsky.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioned works\u00a0will be announced during the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a huge honor to have been selected by the Houston Grand Opera as one of eleven finalists for the\u00a02017\u00a0Song of Houston Composer Call! The nationally recognized Song of Houston initiative commissions new chamber operas and song projects that resonate with contemporary life in Houston and develops community projects that foster collaborations with many &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/nell-is-named-finalist-for-houston-grand-opera-commission\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nell is named finalist for Houston Grand Opera commission&#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":[56],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","tag-opera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","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=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}