{"id":3856,"date":"2013-06-03T14:59:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T19:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2013-06-03T15:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T20:00:35","slug":"cello-concerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/projects\/2013\/cello-concerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Cello Concerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Barbican asked me to write a concerto for Olly Coates and the Britten Sinfonia, I immediately started making plans.  I wanted to write something formally traditional (fast-slow-fast) but with steadily developing content.  The first movement is angular, the second supple, and the third motoric; there is constant progression and no looking back.  The first movement begins with a texture quite explicitly stolen from the first bar of Dutilleux&#8217;s M\u00e9taboles, and proceeds from there.  A series of &#8220;melting&#8221; textures in the strings, muted trumpet, percussion &#038; piano antagonizes the soloist, who plays a quick perpetual motion toccata before the entire structure devolves into drones.  The second movement begins with a very long drone over which the cello spins short lyrical phrases.  Decorative chromaticism slowly becomes more pronounced, and the movement ends in a shimmer of bells and rude brass.  The third movement is a long piece of fast process music: essentially a digital delay applied to two lines of counterpoint.  The result is bright and insistent.  The concerto ends enigmatically, with foghorn brass and a long, sustained drone from the cello.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Barbican asked me to write a concerto for Olly Coates and the Britten Sinfonia, I immediately started making plans. I wanted to write something formally traditional (fast-slow-fast) but with steadily developing content. The first movement is angular, the second supple, and the third motoric; there is constant progression and no looking back. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3859,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/3859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}