{"id":152,"date":"2009-06-10T15:32:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T15:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=152"},"modified":"2009-06-10T15:32:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T15:32:51","slug":"two_cups_of_coffee_and_a_micro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/06\/two_cups_of_coffee_and_a_micro\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Cups of Coffee and a Microphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"insight.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/insight.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" height=\"188\" width=\"250\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is probably a sign that I listen to too much NPR, but I love those story-behind-the-story kinds of stories. Relatedly, I often find composers to be funny, exceptionally articulate people who, in addition to writing music, just so happen to spend a lot of time sitting alone quietly thinking about the large issues of life. Sometimes these feed into their work, and sometimes not so much. However, if you catch them outside their studios and ply them with coffee and a microphone (or a fancy &#8220;composer&#8217;s chair&#8221;  title and a lectern) they will often generously lay some of those deep thoughts on you. <\/p>\n<p>Two fine minds of the music world schooled me recently, and you can check them here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmusicbox.org\/article.nmbx?id=6022\">Sounds Heard: David Lang&#8217;s <i>the little match girl passion<\/i><\/a><i>\n<p><\/i><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmusicbox.org\/article.nmbx?id=6023\">Make Your Own Rules: Notes on Composition from John Corigliano<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably a sign that I listen to too much NPR, but I love those story-behind-the-story kinds of stories. Relatedly, I often find composers to be funny, exceptionally articulate people who, in addition to writing music, just so happen to spend a lot of time sitting alone quietly thinking about the large issues of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}