{"id":20757,"date":"2016-03-18T12:43:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T16:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=20757"},"modified":"2016-03-18T13:04:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T17:04:24","slug":"there-is-joy-in-making-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2016\/03\/there-is-joy-in-making-music.html","title":{"rendered":"There Is Joy in Making Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sO_SuVt8rUQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_20765\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/david-bloom-conducting-contemporaneous.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20765\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20765\" data-attachment-id=\"20765\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2016\/03\/there-is-joy-in-making-music.html\/david-bloom-conducting-contemporaneous\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/david-bloom-conducting-contemporaneous.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"220,151\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"David Bloom Conducting the New Music Ensemble Contemporaneous\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;David Bloom&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/david-bloom-conducting-contemporaneous.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/david-bloom-conducting-contemporaneous.jpg\" alt=\"David Bloom Conducting the New Music Ensemble Contemporaneous\" width=\"220\" height=\"151\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20765\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Bloom<\/p><\/div>In a video trailer for Finnegan Shanahan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/newamrecords.com\/shanahan-the-two-halves\">debut album<\/a> from New Amsterdam Records, David Bloom conducts the new music ensemble <em>Contemporaneous<\/em> in a passage from &#8220;The Two Halves: Music for a Hudson River Railroad Dream Map.&#8221; The piece is a 35-minute song cycle described in a press release as &#8220;deft violin work and ethereal vocals with sprawling arrangements of strings, horns, percussion, and electronics.&#8221; The 22-year-old composer is a founding member of the ensemble, which will perform <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalsawdust.org\/event\/new-amsterdam-presents-finnegan-shanahan-and-contemporaneous-album-release-show\/\">live on Monday in Brooklyn<\/a> to celebrate the album.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to a longer passage here:<br \/>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3469467683\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"http:\/\/finneganshanahan.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-two-halves-2\">The Two Halves by Finnegan Shanahan<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a video trailer for Finnegan Shanahan&#8217;s debut album from New Amsterdam Records, David Bloom conducts the new music ensemble Contemporaneous in a passage from &#8220;The Two Halves: Music for a Hudson River Railroad Dream Map.&#8221; 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