{"id":565,"date":"2019-03-01T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/?p=565"},"modified":"2019-05-12T23:34:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T23:34:40","slug":"march-10-musical-chairs-premieres-the-new-colossus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/01\/march-10-musical-chairs-premieres-the-new-colossus\/","title":{"rendered":"March 10: Musical Chairs &#8220;The New Colossus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble will premiere Oliver&#8217;s newest work\u00a0<em>The New Colossus\u00a0<\/em>on March 10.<\/p>\n<p>Over a century ago, author Emma Lazarus penned a sonnet so powerful it would come to symbolize America&#8217;s place in the world for generations. &#8220;Keep\u00a0ancient lands, your storied pomp,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Give me your tired, your poor.&#8221; \u00a0Oliver has set these iconic words to music in honor of our nation&#8217;s history as a beacon of welcome.<\/p>\n<p>The program also includes words by Lili Boulanger, Hilary Purrington and Claude\u00a0Bolling, plus a set of beloved songs from American theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2:00pm<br \/>\nStaten Island Museum<br \/>\n1000 Richmond Terrace<br \/>\nStaten Island, NY<br \/>\nFree Admission<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcensemble.org\/calendar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble will premiere Oliver&#8217;s newest work\u00a0The New Colossus\u00a0on March 10. Over a century ago, author Emma Lazarus penned a sonnet so powerful it would come to symbolize America&#8217;s place in the world for generations. &#8220;Keep\u00a0ancient lands, your storied pomp,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Give me your tired, your poor.&#8221; \u00a0Oliver has set these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","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\/565","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=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}