{"id":586,"date":"2011-04-28T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T09:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=586"},"modified":"2011-04-28T09:30:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T09:30:36","slug":"pick-a-little_talk-a-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2011\/04\/pick-a-little_talk-a-little\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick-a-little Talk-a-little"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">Today at noon ET, we have the second of our <i>Spring for Music<\/i> live chats, this time, with composer Steven Stucky. Here is his launch statement, pegged to his piece &#8216;August 4, 1964&#8217; which will be performed with the Dallas Symphony:<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;How does a composer write a work about a failed President (Johnson) and a probable war criminal (McNamarra) without lapsing into propaganda? Does he have to check his personal opinions at the door? If a middle-class white composer writes music about the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, does he risk being patronizing? In writing a historical symphony does he steal the voices of those who actually went through the struggles of the movement, fought and died in Vietnam?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More information about the piece can be found in this preview video:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WtSQ4PJTnrI?rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"390\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">And you can chat right here on <i>Life&#8217;s a Pitch. <\/i>Don&#8217;t change that dial!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coveritlive.com\/index2.php\/option=com_altcaster\/task=viewaltcast\/altcast_code=adfe188743\/height=550\/width=570\" allowtransparency=\"true\" \u00a0=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"550px\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"570px\">&amp;amp;lt;a href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.coveritlive.com\/mobile.php\/option=com_mobile\/task=viewaltcast\/altcast_code=adfe188743&#8243; &amp;amp;gt;The Dallas Symphony Orchestra w\/ Steven Stucky&amp;amp;lt;\/a&amp;amp;gt;<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at noon ET, we have the second of our Spring for Music live chats, this time, with composer Steven Stucky. Here is his launch statement, pegged to his piece &#8216;August 4, 1964&#8217; which will be performed with the Dallas Symphony: &#8220;How does a composer write a work about a failed President (Johnson) and a [&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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}