{"id":2888,"date":"2016-12-04T21:02:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T21:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2016-12-05T16:09:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T16:09:22","slug":"video-of-the-premiere-of-songs-in-the-dark-for-voice-and-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/?p=2888","title":{"rendered":"Video of the premiere of &#8220;Songs in the Dark&#8221; for voice and piano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oJ6qxk5mGVI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited to share the video from the premiere of my song cycle &#8220;Songs in the Dark&#8221; &#8211; the version for voice and piano! I love Emily Bront\u00eb&#8217;s poetry, and was honored to perform these with Christina Wright-Ivanova on piano at the UNLV Nextet concert November 2nd. I realized more and more the last couple of years how much I miss and love performing. I feel more complete when I aim to perform my own vocal compositions, since I can play a more active role in the music-making process. Here is a little bit about the songs:<\/p>\n<p>When I came across these highly emotional poems, they reminded me of lyrics to rock songs reminiscent of one of my favorite artists, Tori Amos. I decided to compose what I consider alternative rock art song, and create a narrative that ties these poems together: how the main character deals with the varying emotional states that accompany feelings of despair or loss, focusing on the lower register of the voice:<br \/>\n1) &#8220;Frozen&#8221; &#8211; she is caught in the middle of a metaphorical storm that ultimately sucks her into the vortex of despair.<br \/>\n&#8211; Piano interlude creating the cold and dreary atmosphere as leaves are falling from trees<br \/>\n2) &#8220;Fall, Leaves, Fall&#8221; she embraces darkness, welcoming death around her.<br \/>\n3) &#8220;I&#8217;ll Not Weep&#8221; &#8211; even though she may be sad that he dies, she really is just sad to be stuck here and hopes that she can die too very soon and join him.<\/p>\n<p>If any of my singer friends want to check them out, send me a message! =)<br \/>\nHere is the audio on SoundCloud:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/293328767&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited to share the video from the premiere of my song cycle &#8220;Songs in the Dark&#8221; &#8211; the version for voice and piano! I love Emily Bront\u00eb&#8217;s poetry, and was honored to perform these with Christina Wright-Ivanova on piano at the UNLV Nextet concert November 2nd. I realized more and more the last couple &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/?p=2888\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Video of the premiere of &#8220;Songs in the Dark&#8221; for voice and piano&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2889,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions\/2889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}