{"id":462,"date":"2021-01-22T16:25:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T21:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/?p=462"},"modified":"2021-01-22T16:26:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T21:26:30","slug":"world-premiere-recording-of-its-a-long-way-by-skylark-vocal-ensemble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/world-premiere-recording-of-its-a-long-way-by-skylark-vocal-ensemble\/","title":{"rendered":"World Premiere Recording of &#8220;It&#8217;s a Long Way&#8221; by Skylark Vocal Ensemble"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_463\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-463\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skylarkensemble.org\/itsalongway.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-463 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Seascape-William_Trost_Richards-1901-1024x742.jpg\" alt=\"Painting of ocean, sky, and horizon with bright, pale light\" width=\"525\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Seascape-William_Trost_Richards-1901-1024x742.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Seascape-William_Trost_Richards-1901-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Seascape-William_Trost_Richards-1901-768x556.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Seascape-William_Trost_Richards-1901-1536x1112.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Seascape-William_Trost_Richards-1901.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cSeascape\u201d\u009d (1901), watercolor, William Trost Richards (1833\u201d\u201c1905). Public domain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The World Premiere recording of my newest choral work, <em>It&#8217;s a Long Way,<\/em> commissioned by GRAMMY-nominated vocal ensemble <strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Skylark<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">, has just been released!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><strong>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skylarkensemble.org\/itsalongway.html\">Skylark&#8217;s website<\/a> <\/strong>for free access to the recording, score, and oodles of supplementary videos and study materials that their team of artist-educators has put together to make my score visible, accessible, and approachable for high school and college-level virtual choirs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m honored to be featured in this project alongside <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Jonathan Woody<\/span>, whose new work <em>I Conquer the World with Words<\/em> is a gorgeous and dynamic expression of the impact of language.<\/p>\n<p>I applaud Skylark&#8217;s support of us living composers and encouragement of young singers&#8217; engagement with new music, as well as providing students and educators with world-class choral study materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Premiere recording of my newest choral work, It&#8217;s a Long Way, commissioned by GRAMMY-nominated vocal ensemble Skylark, has just been released! Check out Skylark&#8217;s website for free access to the recording, score, and oodles of supplementary videos and study materials that their team of artist-educators has put together to make my score visible, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/world-premiere-recording-of-its-a-long-way-by-skylark-vocal-ensemble\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World Premiere Recording of &#8220;It&#8217;s a Long Way&#8221; by Skylark Vocal 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":[61],"tags":[34,24],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-recordings","tag-choral-music","tag-recordings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","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=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}