{"id":632,"date":"2019-10-08T01:19:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T01:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/?p=632"},"modified":"2019-10-17T00:49:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T00:49:05","slug":"1026-juventas-performs-illuminated-and-the-big-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/08\/1026-juventas-performs-illuminated-and-the-big-deception\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/26: Juventas Performs ‘Illuminated’ and ‘Big Deception’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juventas’s will perform two of Oliver’s works at\u00a0its October 26 program “Roots & Wings,”\u00a0Illuminated by the Light of Two Ships Passing in the Night\u00a0<\/em>(violin, cello, piano) and\u00a0The Big Deception<\/em> (soprano, mezzo, cello, piano). The program\u00a0presents works\u00a0from Juventas\u2019s early years paired with pieces by the same composers today.<\/p>\n

Commissioned by Juventas\u00a0in 2009,\u00a0Illuminated by the Light of Two Ships Passing in the Night<\/em> was the first work of Oliver’s that Juventas performed, the beginning of an artistic relationship that has now spanned over ten years. On the strength of that Juventas premiere,\u00a0Illuminated\u00a0<\/em>quickly became Oliver’s most performed work. The piece\u00a0has been presented\u00a016 times in 8\u00a0states and is the grand prize\u00a0winner of the 2010 Fifth House Ensemble Young Composer Competition. The music\u00a0is an ode to ephemeral moments of beauty, inspired by a piece of conceptual art Lawrence Weiner.<\/p>\n

The Big Deception<\/em>, commissioned in 2019 by White Snake Projects, is one of Oliver’s newest works. It reflects his recent drive to use music as a tool for amplifying important social stories and speaking to our time. The piece\u00a0sets the story of Irene Da Silva and Ivete Souza, as told in their own words. Irene was approved for a United States Green Card and instructed to return to her native Brazil for her final interview. However, upon visiting the American embassy in Rio, Irene was informed that she had overstayed her American visitor\u2019s visa and couldn\u2019t enter the United States for ten years, even though she had already been approved for a green card. At age 79, she was separated from her daughter and grandchildren, alone in Brazil without her family. Irene persevered for ten long years. At age 89 she was able to return to America, reunite with her family. Yet she can never recover that lost decade.<\/p>\n

The concert also includes pairs of early and recent pieces David Biedenbender, Stephanie Ann Boyd and Heather Gilligan.<\/p>\n

Saturday, October 26, 7:30pm
\nFirst Church Boston
\n66 Marlborough St.
\nBoston, MA
\nTickets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Juventas’s will perform two of Oliver’s works at\u00a0its October 26 program “Roots & Wings,”\u00a0Illuminated by the Light of Two Ships Passing in the Night\u00a0(violin, cello, piano) and\u00a0The Big Deception (soprano, mezzo, cello, piano). The program\u00a0presents works\u00a0from Juventas\u2019s early years paired with pieces by the same composers today. Commissioned by Juventas\u00a0in 2009,\u00a0Illuminated by the Light of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","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\/632","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=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}