{"id":423,"date":"2019-11-07T10:53:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T15:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/?p=423"},"modified":"2019-11-13T08:19:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T13:19:05","slug":"world-premiere-of-blue-shadows-silver-sunlight-by-boston-choral-ensemble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/world-premiere-of-blue-shadows-silver-sunlight-by-boston-choral-ensemble\/","title":{"rendered":"World Premiere of &#8220;Blue Shadows, Silver Sunlight&#8221; by Boston Choral Ensemble"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_746\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-746\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-746 size-large\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/BlueShadows-3-AWinterRide-1024x744.jpg\" alt=\"Snow-covered field with tree shadows\" width=\"525\" height=\"381\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph: Nell Shaw Cohen, Taos, New Mexico, 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Saturday, December 14, 3:00pm<br \/>\nBoston Choral Ensemble Holiday Concert<br \/>\nOld South Church<br \/>\n645 Boylston St, Boston, MA<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonchoral.org\/engage\/2019-holiday-concert\/\">Purchase Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Boston Choral Ensemble<\/strong>\u00a0will give\u00a0the World Premiere of\u00a0<em>Blue Shadows, Silver Sunlight,<\/em>commissioned through their 12th Annual Commission Competition, on the choir&#8217;s annual winter holiday concert!<\/p>\n<p><em>Blue Shadows, Silver Sunlight<\/em> (ca. 9 minutes) features settings of three poems on the theme of winter: <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/winter-branches\">\u201cWinter Branches\u201d\u009d<\/a> by Margaret Widdemer, <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/winter-blue-jay\">\u201cA Winter Blue Jay\u201d\u009d<\/a> by Sara Teasdale, and <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/winter-ride\">\u201cA Winter Ride\u201d\u009d<\/a> by Amy Lowell, all written in the early 20th century by American women.<\/p>\n<p>Each of these poets used vivid descriptions of winter phenomena to convey moments of profound connection to the natural world. I&#8217;ve grouped these poems together because I feel they form an aesthetically cohesive set, providing the basis for a musical narrative arc that moves from quiet contemplation (\u201cWinter Branches\u201d\u009d) to joyful exuberance (\u201cA Winter Ride\u201d\u009d).<\/p>\n<p>I hope you may be able to join me at this very special performance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, December 14, 3:00pm Boston Choral Ensemble Holiday Concert Old South Church 645 Boylston St, Boston, MA Purchase Tickets Boston Choral Ensemble\u00a0will give\u00a0the World Premiere of\u00a0Blue Shadows, Silver Sunlight,commissioned through their 12th Annual Commission Competition, on the choir&#8217;s annual winter holiday concert! Blue Shadows, Silver Sunlight (ca. 9 minutes) features settings of three poems on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/world-premiere-of-blue-shadows-silver-sunlight-by-boston-choral-ensemble\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World Premiere of &#8220;Blue Shadows, Silver Sunlight&#8221; by Boston Choral Ensemble&#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":[75,28],"tags":[34,23,70],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-music","category-performances","tag-choral-music","tag-concerts-and-events","tag-nature-and-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","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=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}