{"id":1030,"date":"2016-11-29T07:52:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T12:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2016-11-29T07:52:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T12:52:03","slug":"solitude-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/2016\/11\/solitude-premiere.html","title":{"rendered":"Solitude Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/kevin-lawrence.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1031\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/kevin-lawrence-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"kevin-lawrence\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/kevin-lawrence-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/kevin-lawrence-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/kevin-lawrence.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019m a big fan of the people I am close to; I don\u2019t know how I would get along without them.\u00a0 But I really cherish my time alone.\u00a0 Solitude gives me the energy I need to interact with the rest of the world in a healthy way.\u00a0 When I get enough of it \u2013 and I need a lot \u2013 I am more creative, more kind, more balanced.<\/p>\n<p>This coming Saturday night, violinist Kevin Lawrence is playing a program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncsa.edu\/performances\/event-detail.aspx?id=96118#?eventid=96118\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that investigates solitude through unaccompanied works by Prokofiev, Takahashi and Ysa\u00ffe that will include the premiere of <em>Solitude<\/em>, which I completed in August.\u00a0 The piece plays with pairs of opposites, described in the notes I provided:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Solitude can be both frightening and invigorating.\u00a0 Left to ourselves, we are faced with feelings of isolation and loneliness.\u00a0 Those dark feelings, though, can lead to an exploration of our inner resources, our self-reliance and the strengths of our imaginations.<\/p>\n<p>Joy and sorrow are often seen as polar opposites, but there is a rich expressive terrain where the two meet, where we can\u2019t separate one from the other.\u00a0 No musical genre captures this terrain better than the blues.<\/p>\n<p>These two dichotomies find companionship in <em>Solitude<\/em>, a composition for solo violin that uses blues progressions to explore the paradox of opposites aligning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a big fan of the people I am close to; I don\u2019t know how I would get along without them.\u00a0 But I really cherish my time alone.\u00a0 Solitude gives me the energy I need to interact with the rest of the world in a healthy way.\u00a0 When I get enough of it \u2013 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}