{"id":808,"date":"2021-08-23T19:08:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/?p=808"},"modified":"2021-08-23T19:08:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:08:32","slug":"9-11-juventas-is-there-a-word-that-means-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/2021\/08\/23\/9-11-juventas-is-there-a-word-that-means-return\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/11: Juventas &#8220;Is There a Word That Means Return?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Juventas New Music Ensemble will perform Oliver&#8217;s chamber work <em>Is There a Word That Means Return<\/em> in its September 11 season opener &#8220;Memory &amp; Hope.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With powerful lyrics by author Meghan Guidry, <em>Is There a Word That Means Return?<\/em> speaks to holidays as moments of heightened awareness of the empty chairs at our tables, from loved ones lost. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guidry\u2019s autobiographical text mourns the loss of her father, juxtaposing memories of their holiday traditions with loneliness left by his absence. The music (scored for narrator, bass-baritone singer, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion) pairs father and daughter in a wistful duet across space and time, child speaking prose, parent calling back through song. Each has a theme \u2013 the father\u2019s slow and lyrical, the daughter\u2019s twinkling and mystical \u2013 with a melody reminiscent of a music-box to represent their shared past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The concert program also includes music by Stephanie Ann Boyd, Joe Jaxson, Cole Reyes and Robert Ruohola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday, September 11, 8:00pm<br>Multicultural Art Center<br>41 East Second St.<br>East Cambridge, MA<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.juventasmusic.org\/encore.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juventas New Music Ensemble will perform Oliver&#8217;s chamber work Is There a Word That Means Return in its September 11 season opener &#8220;Memory &amp; Hope.&#8221; With powerful lyrics by author Meghan Guidry, Is There a Word That Means Return? speaks to holidays as moments of heightened awareness of the empty chairs at our tables, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","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\/808","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=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}