{"id":16681,"date":"2020-06-24T14:07:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T14:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/?p=16681"},"modified":"2020-06-24T14:11:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T14:11:09","slug":"changing-the-game-on-the-concert-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/changing-the-game-on-the-concert-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the game on the concert stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nkeiru.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"\" data-large_image_width=\"364\" data-large_image_height=\"302\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16683\" src=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nkeiru.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nkeiru.jpg 364w, https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nkeiru-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Changing the game on the concert stage-please see world premiere of composer Nkeiru Okoye &#8220;Black Bottom&#8221; by the Detroit Symphony conducted by Maestro Thomas Wilkins. The composition for full orchestra and four African American solo voices was developed as from a nearly one-year-long study of a photographic exhibit of Black Bottom Street (predominantly Black neighborhood in Detroit demolished for redevelopment in the early 1960&#8217;s). See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=11xUjzA1Ljc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=11xUjzA1Ljc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I personally met and befriended Nkeiru Okoye in New York at the 2014 world premiere of her opera Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom. More later<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Changing the game on the concert stage-please see world premiere of composer Nkeiru Okoye &#8220;Black Bottom&#8221; by the Detroit Symphony conducted by Maestro Thomas Wilkins. The composition for full orchestra and four African American solo voices was developed as from a nearly one-year-long study of a photographic exhibit of Black Bottom Street (predominantly Black&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,1],"tags":[405],"class_list":["post-16681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musicuntold-blog","category-uncategorized","tag-nkeiru-okoye","category-97","category-1","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16685,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16681\/revisions\/16685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}