{"id":396,"date":"2019-01-18T13:27:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T18:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2019-02-08T13:00:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T18:00:37","slug":"world-premiere-of-the-sphinx-and-the-milky-way-for-orchestra-at-university-of-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/world-premiere-of-the-sphinx-and-the-milky-way-for-orchestra-at-university-of-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"World Premiere of &#8220;The Sphinx and the Milky Way&#8221; for orchestra at University of Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_397\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-397\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-397\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Sphinx-and-the-Milky-Way-1946-852x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Painting &quot;The Sphinx and the Milky Way&quot; by Charles E. Burchfield\" width=\"525\" height=\"631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Sphinx-and-the-Milky-Way-1946-852x1024.jpg 852w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Sphinx-and-the-Milky-Way-1946-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Sphinx-and-the-Milky-Way-1946-768x923.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Sphinx-and-the-Milky-Way-1946.jpg 899w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The Sphinx and the Milky Way&#8221; (1946) by Charles E. Burchfield.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse<\/strong> <strong>Symphony Orchestra<\/strong> presents the World Premiere of\u00a0<strong><em>The Sphinx and the Milky Way<\/em><\/strong>, my tone poem for orchestra\u00a0inspired by the visionary artworks of\u00a0<strong>Charles E. Burchfield<\/strong>. (Pictured: Burchfield&#8217;s eponymous painting of a sphinx moth!)<\/p>\n<p>This work was written in 2011 during my studies at New England Conservatory, where it was given a wonderful reading and recording session. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/the-sphinx-and-the-milky-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/the-sphinx-and-the-milky-way\/\">Listen to NEC&#8217;s reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2019 @ 2:00PM<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Symphony Orchestra<br \/>\nLa Crosse, WI<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/share.uwlax.edu\/events-calendar\/event\/18877\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/share.uwlax.edu\/events-calendar\/event\/18877\/\">Event Website<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>(Special shout out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.composerdiversity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.composerdiversity.com\/\">The Institute for Composer Diversity<\/a>, whose database led this orchestra&#8217;s director to find my work!)<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Symphony Orchestra presents the World Premiere of\u00a0The Sphinx and the Milky Way, my tone poem for orchestra\u00a0inspired by the visionary artworks of\u00a0Charles E. Burchfield. (Pictured: Burchfield&#8217;s eponymous painting of a sphinx moth!) This work was written in 2011 during my studies at New England Conservatory, where it was given a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/world-premiere-of-the-sphinx-and-the-milky-way-for-orchestra-at-university-of-wisconsin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World Premiere of &#8220;The Sphinx and the Milky Way&#8221; for orchestra at University of Wisconsin&#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":[21,28],"tags":[81,36,23],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-music","category-performances","tag-art-and-music","tag-charles-burchfield","tag-concerts-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","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=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}