{"id":469,"date":"2018-05-15T21:43:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T21:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/?p=469"},"modified":"2018-06-10T19:24:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T19:24:08","slug":"june-5-northsouth-consonance-performs-love-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/15\/june-5-northsouth-consonance-performs-love-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"June 5: North\/South Performs &#8220;Love Letters&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The North\/South Consonance Chamber Orchestra will perform the New York premiere of Oliver\u2019s sextet\u00a0<em>Love Letters<\/em> (flute, clarinet, string quartet).\u00a0<em>Love Letters\u00a0<\/em>was written in 2015 for the composer\u2019s marriage to Landscape Architect Chris Beagan. \u201cThis piece is an affirmation of love and equality,\u201d Oliver\u00a0shares, and this performance takes place on the eve of their third anniversary. \u201cChris and I grew up in a time when two men could not marry. When we tied the knot, our marriage was only recognized in some parts of our country.\u201d Three weeks after their wedding, the Supreme Court issued the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, which recognized the fundamental right of same-sex couples to marry.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0program also includes music by Alejandro Basulto, Ofer Ben-Amots, Roberto Coelho de Souza and North\/South Consonance&#8217;s own Artistic Director Max Lifchitz.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, June 5\u00a0at 8:00pm<br \/>\nChrist and St. Stephen&#8217;s Church<br \/>\n120 West 69th Street (between Broadway &amp; Columbus)<br \/>\nNew York, NY<br \/>\nFree Admission<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northsouthmusic.org\/calendar.asp\">Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-485\" src=\"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/June-5-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/June-5-1.jpeg 1275w, http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/June-5-1-600x776.jpeg 600w, http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/June-5-1-232x300.jpeg 232w, http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/June-5-1-791x1024.jpeg 791w, http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/June-5-1-300x388.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North\/South Consonance Chamber Orchestra will perform the New York premiere of Oliver\u2019s sextet\u00a0Love Letters (flute, clarinet, string quartet).\u00a0Love Letters\u00a0was written in 2015 for the composer\u2019s marriage to Landscape Architect Chris Beagan. \u201cThis piece is an affirmation of love and equality,\u201d Oliver\u00a0shares, and this performance takes place on the eve of their third anniversary. \u201cChris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-performances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}