{"id":581,"date":"2024-09-09T15:15:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T19:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/?p=581"},"modified":"2024-09-09T15:15:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T19:15:20","slug":"arkansas-state-university-concert-choir-commission-for-2024-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/arkansas-state-university-concert-choir-commission-for-2024-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas State University Concert Choir Commission for 2024-25"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>New choral work to feature poetry by Kathryn I. W. Sparks<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-582\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/277588371_384106647053824_4344232764910198654_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Logo for Arkansas State University\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/277588371_384106647053824_4344232764910198654_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/277588371_384106647053824_4344232764910198654_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/277588371_384106647053824_4344232764910198654_n-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/277588371_384106647053824_4344232764910198654_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/277588371_384106647053824_4344232764910198654_n-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/277588371_384106647053824_4344232764910198654_n-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/277588371_384106647053824_4344232764910198654_n.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>It&#8217;s my pleasure to be embarking on a wonderful collaboration with the <strong>Arkansas State University Concert Choir<\/strong> (Ryan W. Sullivan, Director). The ensemble has commissioned me to write a choral setting of a stirring text by contemporary poet Kathryn I. W. Sparks for their 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p>The World Premiere will take place in Spring 2025 (date TBA). Watch this space for updates!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New choral work to feature poetry by Kathryn I. W. Sparks It&#8217;s my pleasure to be embarking on a wonderful collaboration with the Arkansas State University Concert Choir (Ryan W. Sullivan, Director). The ensemble has commissioned me to write a choral setting of a stirring text by contemporary poet Kathryn I. W. Sparks for their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/arkansas-state-university-concert-choir-commission-for-2024-25\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arkansas State University Concert Choir Commission for 2024-25&#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":[28],"tags":[34,23],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performances","tag-choral-music","tag-concerts-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}