{"id":469,"date":"2021-04-02T10:52:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T14:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2021-09-24T09:52:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T13:52:33","slug":"commission-from-laura-strickling-for-the-4040-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/commission-from-laura-strickling-for-the-4040-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission from Laura Strickling for The 40@40 Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g-CcLvhugqg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m delighted to have been commissioned by extraordinary soprano <strong>Laura Strickling<\/strong>\u00a0to write an art song for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurastrickling.com\/the-40-40-project\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.laurastrickling.com\/the-40-40-project\">The 40@40 Project<\/a>! Praised\u00a0by <em>The New York Times <\/em>for her\u00a0\u201cflexible voice, crystalline diction, and warm presence,\u201d Laura is personally commissioning 40+ art songs for her ambitious and visionary project.<\/p>\n<p>For this song I&#8217;ve collaborated once again with my wonderful\u00a0librettist and sister,\u00a0<strong>Megan Cohen. <\/strong>Titled\u00a0<em>Woman Walking, <\/em>our song is\u00a0a portrait of a solitary woman and present-day fl\u00e2neuse sauntering city streets. I can&#8217;t wait to share this work with you soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m delighted to have been commissioned by extraordinary soprano Laura Strickling\u00a0to write an art song for\u00a0The 40@40 Project! Praised\u00a0by The New York Times for her\u00a0\u201cflexible voice, crystalline diction, and warm presence,\u201d Laura is personally commissioning 40+ art songs for her ambitious and visionary project. For this song I&#8217;ve collaborated once again with my wonderful\u00a0librettist and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/commission-from-laura-strickling-for-the-4040-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Commission from Laura Strickling for The 40@40 Project&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","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=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}