{"id":3764,"date":"2019-04-16T15:25:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T15:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2019-04-16T15:25:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T15:25:04","slug":"houston-chamber-choir-performs-a-measure-in-trance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=3764","title":{"rendered":"Houston Chamber Choir performs A Measure in Trance<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brian Cook, Karim Al-Zand<\/p><\/div>The Houston Chamber Choir<\/a> and Musiqa<\/a> collaborated on an April 13th concert featuring “Mass Observation” a powerful, large-scale work by Tarik O’Regan<\/a>, Also on the program were works by Marcus Maroney<\/a>, Augusta Read Thomas<\/a> and a performance of my 2001 piece for a cappella choir A Measure in Trance<\/a>, with Brian Cook conducting. The work is based on six short poems by the Arab classical poet Ibn Al-Mutazz (861\u2013908 C.E.). Each evokes a single poignant image: the colorful new moon signaling the end of Ramadan; a mysterious performer singing to the accompaniment of a lute; a love-crazed young man; the advent of spring; a woman enjoying a guilty pleasure in music-making. A review of the concert appears in the Texas Classical Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Houston Chamber Choir and Musiqa collaborated on an April 13th concert featuring “Mass Observation” a powerful, large-scale work by Tarik O’Regan, Also on the program were works by Marcus Maroney, Augusta Read Thomas and a performance of my 2001 piece for a cappella choir A Measure in Trance, with Brian Cook conducting. The work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3764","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\/3764","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=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions\/3774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}