{"id":7348,"date":"2026-05-13T11:35:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=7348"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:35:23","slug":"a-far-cry-performs-the-strangers-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=7348","title":{"rendered":"A Far Cry performs The Strangers’ Case<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On May 9th Boston’s A Far Cry<\/a> ensemble presented the East Coast premiere of The Strangers’ Case<\/a><\/i> with Karim Sulayman, tenor. Review in The Boston Musical Intelligencer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Strangers\u2019 Case<\/i> presents songs and chronicles of the immigrant experience. It gathers together poems and narratives from diverse sources about the perennial journey of the \u201cstranger.\u201d The work\u2019s title originates in Shakespeare\u2019s monologue for Sir Thomas More, which eloquently argues for empathy and compassion towards displaced people. The Strangers\u2019 Case reminds us of our shared history, though it is fraught with contradiction, filled with both selfless generosity and selfish indifference. Digital Program Book<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On May 9th Boston’s A Far Cry ensemble presented the East Coast premiere of The Strangers’ Case with Karim Sulayman, tenor. Review in The Boston Musical Intelligencer. The Strangers\u2019 Case presents songs and chronicles of the immigrant experience. It gathers together poems and narratives from diverse sources about the perennial journey of the \u201cstranger.\u201d The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14,18,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","category-performances","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348","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=7348"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7357,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions\/7357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}