{"id":2725,"date":"2015-11-05T14:18:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T14:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2015-11-05T14:20:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T14:20:26","slug":"soli-concert-in-san-antonio-features-swimmy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=2725","title":{"rendered":"SOLI concert in San Antonio features <i>Swimmy<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/classicalvoiceamerica.org\/2015\/10\/08\/youthful-images-pervade-solis-season-opener\/\" target=\"_blank\">Classical Voice North America<\/a> (Journal of the Music Critics Association of North America) reviews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solichamberensemble.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SOLI Chamber Ensemble&#8217;s<\/a> October 5th opening concert, which featured a program of works by Pierre Jalbert, Anthony Brant and my piece <a href=\"http:\/\/alzand.com\/?page_id=798\">Swimmy<\/a>, narrated by Texas Public Radio&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/tpr.org\/people\/nathan-cone#stream\/0\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Cone<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Al-Zand deftly embodies in music the spirit, delicacy, and subtle colors of Lionni\u2019s illustrations (projected on a screen for this performance). Especially delicious are the rhythmically cockeyed walk of a lobster and the serpentine gliding of an eel \u201cwhose tail was almost too far away to remember.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/swimmy_SOLI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/swimmy_SOLI.jpg\" alt=\"swimmy_SOLI\" width=\"450\" height=\"232\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/swimmy_SOLI.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/swimmy_SOLI-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/swimmy_SOLI-200x103.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classical Voice North America (Journal of the Music Critics Association of North America) reviews SOLI Chamber Ensemble&#8217;s October 5th opening concert, which featured a program of works by Pierre Jalbert, Anthony Brant and my piece Swimmy, narrated by Texas Public Radio&#8217;s Nathan Cone. Al-Zand deftly embodies in music the spirit, delicacy, and subtle colors of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musiqa","category-news","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2733,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions\/2733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}