{"id":781,"date":"2015-06-08T08:51:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T12:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/?p=781"},"modified":"2015-06-08T08:51:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T12:51:18","slug":"honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/2015\/06\/honey.html","title":{"rendered":"Honey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CD_Yael_Image\"<\/a>Pianist Yael Manor has released a wonderful new disk of solo music that includes a piece of mine she premiered last winter at the Tenri Cultural Center in NYC. The disk is called Elixir<\/em>, and it\u2019s available everywhere stuff like that is available. Tomorrow night (Tues, June 9) she is performing a recital at Beethoven Pianos in NY featuring works on the recording:<\/p>\n

Lawrence Dillon \u00a0\u00a0Honey<\/strong>
\nFrederick Tillis \u00a0 \u00a0 Spiritual Fantasy No. 4 <\/strong>
\nKarl Kroeger \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Toccata for Piano <\/strong>
\nRichard Cameron-Wolfe \u00a0\u00a0 Code of Un-Silence: A Prayer <\/strong>
\nJunYi Chow \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 It Rained! The Ants Ran… <\/strong>
\nReinaldo Moya\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Rayuela Preludes <\/strong>
\nRobert Parris \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Variations for Piano <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is info on the concert and recording: http:\/\/composers.com\/yael-manor-Elixir-Recording-2015<\/p>\n

Honey<\/em> was written in 2012, my first solo piano piece after a 10-year hiatus. As is typical of a lot of my works over the last few years, the score comes with a brief exordium:<\/p>\n

Open the tomb and you will find a jar. Break the seal, and taste. See?
\nThousands of years have not dented its flavor, armies and thieves have not quickened its flow.
\nWatch it spread in a puddle on your plate,
\nit slows down the tongue,
\nbrings sovereignty to plain surroundings.
\nUse it as a name for the one to whom you adhere,
\nthough everything else dissolves. Use it as a prayer that binds you to your moment,
\nthat binds you to moments long before you were born,
\nand long after your moment
\nhas faded and dispersed.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Honey<\/em> is a meditation on the texture, longevity and adaptability of an 8000-year-old source of sweetness. Its four sections flow over and through one another, blending the glittering fluidity of the opening, a stately choral texture and a brief aria into a final exuberant dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pianist Yael Manor has released a wonderful new disk of solo music that includes a piece of mine she premiered last winter at the Tenri Cultural Center in NYC. The disk is called Elixir, and it\u2019s available everywhere stuff like that is available. Tomorrow night (Tues, June 9) she is performing a recital at Beethoven […]<\/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-781","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\/781","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=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}