{"id":2973,"date":"2016-12-16T20:55:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T20:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2016-12-16T21:19:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T21:19:01","slug":"ring-the-bells-at-break-of-day-premiered-by-the-shepherd-school-of-music-symphony-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=2973","title":{"rendered":"<i>Ring the Bells at Break of Day<\/i> premi\u00e8red by the Shepherd School of Music Symphony Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/alzand.com\/?page_id=2924\">Ring the Bells at Break of Day<\/a><\/i> was written to mark the 40th anniversary of the Shepherd School of Music, as part of a project to commission each of the school\u2019s faculty composers on this auspicious occasion. The piece is a short, joyful and celebratory work, which commemorates the outstanding music-making that has flourished over the school\u2019s history. The piece was premi\u00e8red on December 2, 2016 under the direction of Larry Rachleff. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And, oh, the bells at break of day<br \/>\nThat roused us, ringing merrily!<br \/>\n\u2014John Morgan (1889)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I wrote <i>Ring the Bells at Break of Day<\/i> while living in Rome in 2016, and it features a stately chorale tune, <i>Inni e canti<\/i> [Hymns and Songs], which rang daily from a bell tower across the street. The graceful hymn is interrupted by a quick, punchy theme in the winds (and later, strings)\u2014perhaps the sounds of street bustle and frenetic motor traffic. Eventually the majestic chorale returns: in a solo horn, a short <i>fugato<\/i>, and finally in combination with the ecstatic, lively music. The piece closes with the jubilant pealing of bells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ring the Bells at Break of Day was written to mark the 40th anniversary of the Shepherd School of Music, as part of a project to commission each of the school\u2019s faculty composers on this auspicious occasion. The piece is a short, joyful and celebratory work, which commemorates the outstanding music-making that has flourished over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","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=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}