{"id":24,"date":"2007-04-24T07:27:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T12:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/news\/2007\/two-trains-at-the-wheeler-school\/"},"modified":"2007-04-25T22:20:08","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T03:20:08","slug":"two-trains-at-the-wheeler-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/news\/2007\/two-trains-at-the-wheeler-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Trains at the Wheeler School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelerschool.org\/pages\/sitepage.cfm?page=2915\">highschool<\/a> in Providence, RI, asked me to write a new piece for them.  I set a current student&#8217;s poem (who happens to be the younger sister of a friend of mine from years ago) for choir, flute (played by the son of my 6<sup>th<\/sup> grade math teacher), and piano four-hands.<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/providence-ri.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Providence' class=\"right\"\/>This is all going to go down on May 4<sup>th<\/sup>, at 6:30 PM (&#8220;for the younger kids&#8221;) and again at 8:00 PM &#8220;for teenagers.&#8221;  The distinction is, I believe, one of space rather than content, although you never know.  I remember there being an outpouring of horror when my friend Melina sang (quite beautifully!) <a href=\"http:\/\/atributetojonimitchell.com\/prince.html\">Joni Mitchell<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Blue<\/em> eight years ago in front of everybody, as if the mere mention of &#8220;needles&#8221; was going to make the fifth graders go shoot up underneath the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yggdrasil\">ol&#8217; ash tree<\/a>.  In any event, if you&#8217;re in Providence on May 4<sup>th<\/sup>, come to whichever s\u00e9ance suits your sensibilities.  I&#8217;ll be conducting.  More details are on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelerschool.org\/pages\/sitepage.cfm?page=2915\">their site<\/a> if you click around aggressively enough.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, my highschool in Providence, RI, asked me to write a new piece for them. I set a current student&#8217;s poem (who happens to be the younger sister of a friend of mine from years ago) for choir, flute (played by the son of my 6th grade math teacher), and piano four-hands. This is all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}