{"id":821,"date":"2015-08-24T12:40:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T16:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/?p=821"},"modified":"2015-08-24T12:40:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T16:40:37","slug":"another-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/2015\/08\/another-happy-new-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Another Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/LD-2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-682 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/LD-2011-42x300.jpg\" alt=\"LD 2011\" width=\"42\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/LD-2011-42x300.jpg 42w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/LD-2011-144x1024.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/LD-2011.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 42px) 100vw, 42px\" \/><\/a>We had the first gathering of our Composition Department here at UNC School of the Arts yesterday. Twenty-two of us in the room, ready to get started, full of aspirations and enthusiasm. We went around the room introducing ourselves, and saying a word or two about what we had been working on over the summer. As I heard the wide range of answers (MAX-MSP, cello concerto, songs with banjo), I couldn\u2019t help feeling like this is an amazing time to be making music. The options are so varied, so many paths are acceptable and celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>Being in a roomful of people who want to make things out of sound \u2013 not sure why, but it never fails to energize me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had the first gathering of our Composition Department here at UNC School of the Arts yesterday. Twenty-two of us in the room, ready to get started, full of aspirations and enthusiasm. We went around the room introducing ourselves, and saying a word or two about what we had been working on over the summer. [&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-821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","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=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}