{"id":449,"date":"2020-07-08T11:04:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T15:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2020-07-22T11:32:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T15:32:44","slug":"interviews-for-skylark-and-reflections-on-music-and-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/interviews-for-skylark-and-reflections-on-music-and-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Interviews for Skylark, Reflections on Music and Nature, and Houston Grand Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-450 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/105578672_4223162097726470_7853359008053099093_n.jpg\" alt=\"Sklyark Plus poster with portrait of Nell\" width=\"449\" height=\"565\" \/><br \/>\nAs composers, musicians, organizations, and our audiences work to stay connected during this extended hiatus from live performances, many are turning to online video interviews as a way to continue engaging with the motivating ideas and individuals behind the music of our moment.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, I was honored to be invited by three different interview series for public conversations about my work as a composer writing opera, choral music, and music inspired by nature, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In early June, librettist Megan Cohen and I were interviewed by <strong>Patrick Summers<\/strong>, Artistic Director of <strong>Houston Grand Opera<\/strong>, in a private Zoom event for friends of HGO that explored our upcoming opera, <em>Turn and Burn<\/em>, commissioned by the company for a World Premiere production next year.<\/p>\n<p>My next interview was with <strong>Matthew Guard<\/strong>, Artistic Director of vocal ensemble <strong>Skylark<\/strong>. Our conversation centered on my choral cycle inspired by Victorian art, <em>Transform the World with Beauty, <\/em>which Skylark commissioned and toured last year. To watch my interview and lots of great content, please consider subscribing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skylarkensemble.org\/joinskylark.html\">Skylark+<\/a>, a special platform to support the ensemble&#8217;s artists during this pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, I spoke with a composer colleague, <strong>Ryan Suleiman<\/strong>, for his weekly interview series <strong>Reflections on Music and Nature<\/strong>. We discussed my approach and motivations in composing music inspired by landscape, nature, and place; artists as activists of the imagination; and <strong>Landscape Music<\/strong>, the international composers&#8217; network I direct and which Ryan is a member of. Our conversation is available for viewing anytime on YouTube (see below).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nell Shaw Cohen: Reflections on Music and Nature (episode 7)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/utV8Otgl57I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As composers, musicians, organizations, and our audiences work to stay connected during this extended hiatus from live performances, many are turning to online video interviews as a way to continue engaging with the motivating ideas and individuals behind the music of our moment. Last month, I was honored to be invited by three different interview &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/interviews-for-skylark-and-reflections-on-music-and-nature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interviews for Skylark, Reflections on Music and Nature, and Houston Grand Opera&#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":[21,75,61,87],"tags":[81,34,88,70,78],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-music","category-landscape-music","category-new-recordings","category-rodeo-opera","tag-art-and-music","tag-choral-music","tag-houston-grand-opera","tag-nature-and-music","tag-opera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","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=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}