{"id":824,"date":"2015-08-28T12:21:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T16:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/?p=824"},"modified":"2015-08-28T12:21:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T16:21:24","slug":"dirges-and-dances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/2015\/08\/dirges-and-dances.html","title":{"rendered":"Dirges and Dances"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_825\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/BlackMountainTrio_640_480_001.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-825\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-825\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/BlackMountainTrio_640_480_001-300x225.png\" alt=\"Black Mountain Trio\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/BlackMountainTrio_640_480_001-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/BlackMountainTrio_640_480_001.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Mountain Trio<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A lot of my work from the 1990s referenced my relationship with my father, who died of a brain tumor when I was two years old.\u00a0 His youthful death could easily lead many to assume I had no relationship with him, but even no relationship is a kind of relationship, with repercussions and ramifications.\u00a0 Certainly the tangled emotions that occupied my home at a time when I could scarcely be expected to grasp them have left deep traces.<\/p>\n<p>I am reminded of those traces by an upcoming performance of <em>Dirges and Dances<\/em>, a piano trio I wrote in 1998. The Black Mountain Trio (Philip Bush, piano; Kevin Lawrence, violin; Brooks Whitehouse, cello) will be playing it on a concert with music by Beethoven and Dvorak this Sunday <a href=\"http:\/\/carolinachambersymphony.org\/event\/black-mountain-trio\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dirges and Dances\u00a0<\/em>is a three-movement exploration of the interdependency of joy and sorrow.\u00a0 The first movement is a mournful dirge built from a quiet thrumming that alternates between simple consonance and veiled dissonance.\u00a0 The musical materials of the dirge are then transformed in the next two movements, a pair of dances: one dark and vigorous, the other joyful.\u00a0 The shadowed world of the first movement is never distant, though, as the energetic action in these two dances occasionally veers into pensive reflection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of my work from the 1990s referenced my relationship with my father, who died of a brain tumor when I was two years old.\u00a0 His youthful death could easily lead many to assume I had no relationship with him, but even no relationship is a kind of relationship, with repercussions and ramifications.\u00a0 Certainly [&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-824","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\/824","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=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}