{"id":749,"date":"2015-05-12T08:53:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T12:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/?p=749"},"modified":"2015-05-12T08:53:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T12:53:08","slug":"coming-down-for-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/2015\/05\/coming-down-for-air.html","title":{"rendered":"Coming Down for Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-12-at-8.49.18-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-750 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-12-at-8.49.18-AM-300x255.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-12 at 8.49.18 AM\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-12-at-8.49.18-AM-300x255.png 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-12-at-8.49.18-AM.png 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019ve been in rehearsals with the Giannini String Quartet this past week preparing for their Spain tour, where they will be playing my <em>String Quartet No. 3: Air <\/em>(2004). <em>Air<\/em> is an eleven-minute homage to Italian aria, our fragile atmosphere, and our lifelong reliance on the peaceful undulation of our lungs. There is a wonderful recording of it by the Daedalus String Quartet online in all the usual places.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s always a delight for me to hear excellent musicians hone in on a composition, polishing every detail until everything sparkles. Giannini hasn\u2019t disappointed: their musicianship, focus and skill are an inspiration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We have a preview performance this Thursday evening at Arbor Acres in Winston-Salem. Other works on the program by Boccherini, Gershwin and Sheng. Then we head to Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia next week. More about that later, hopefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been in rehearsals with the Giannini String Quartet this past week preparing for their Spain tour, where they will be playing my String Quartet No. 3: Air (2004). Air is an eleven-minute homage to Italian aria, our fragile atmosphere, and our lifelong reliance on the peaceful undulation of our lungs. There is a wonderful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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-749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","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=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}